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" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "
Charlotte Bunch
Equality
Women
Architecture
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" The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response. "
Ma Yansong
Work
Time
Long
" In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. "
Christian de Portzamparc
Architecture
Old
City
" 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. "
Taylor Schilling
Design
Home
Architecture
" Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. "
Stephen Gardiner
Flexibility
Most
Today
" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "
Zaha Hadid
Tough
Very
Architecture
" Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. "
John Portman
Buildings
Way
People
" 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. "
Trey Parker
Architecture
Habit
Myself
" I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. "
Marcus Brigstocke
Sea
Beautiful
Mountains
" In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services. "
Alex Biryukov
Long-Term
Architecture
Web
" I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? "
David Chipperfield
How
Years
Think
" Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside. "
Mario Botta
Know
Lost
You
" Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. "
Richard Meier
Architecture
Time
Rome
" The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. "
Mukesh Ambani
Growth
Lose
Organization
" There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. "
Kenzo Tange
Powerful
Need
Heart
" Architecture begins where engineering ends. "
Walter Gropius
Where
Architecture
Begins
" 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. "
Zaha Hadid
Architecture
Effort
People
" My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. "
Bernard Tschumi
Things
You
Architecture
" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "
James Polshek
Boy
Architecture
Bad
" I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design. "
David Chipperfield
Me
Architecture
Art
" Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. "
Abagail Johnson
Way
Change
Technology
" Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. "
Peter Zumthor
Quality
Life
Past
" There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. "
Rem Koolhaas
Architecture
Nothing
Dutch
" I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture. "
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Love
Art
You
" The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story. "
Simon Schama
Bible
History
Nature
" I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. "
Giambattista Valli
Architecture
Style
Work
" In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. "
Michael Graves
Function
Architecture
Between
" Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. "
Amanda Hearst
Building
Rome
Museum
" I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture. "
Max Walker
Me
World
Freedom
" Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. "
Antoine Predock
Architecture
Ride
Intellectual
" The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. "
Thomas a Kempis
Building
Architecture
Foundation