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" We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. "

Elizabeth Diller

Architecture

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" Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. "

" We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. "

" Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly. "

" My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. "

" Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. "

" But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. "

" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Architecture

Great

" Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere. "

" My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. "

" Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. "

" The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. "

" Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. "

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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" My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. "

" I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. "

Luis Barragan

Landscape

Architecture

" Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. "

" Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master. "

" I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. "

" I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks. "

" What people want, above all, is order. "

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

" I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced. "

" I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse. "

" In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. "

" Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. "

" No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. "

" Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go. "

" I think architecture has to be a gift. "