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" When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. "
Roman Coppola
Architecture
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" We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body. "
Elizabeth Diller
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Building
Body
" 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
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" Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. "
Rick Perlstein
Progress
Business
Architecture
" I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.' "
Robin Lord Taylor
Thought
Architecture
Like
" For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects. "
Steven Holl
Architecture
Light
Space
" 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
" It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Light
Drawing
Architecture
" Less is more. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Less Is More
More
Architecture
" To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting. "
Ruth Bernhard
Beautiful
City
Me
" I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood. "
Roman Coppola
Home
Years
Up
" After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing. "
Keerthy Suresh
Good
Fashion
Drawing
" Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. "
Moshe Safdie
Architecture
Looking
Time
" I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. "
Susan Vreeland
Looking
Clothing
Museums
" I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. "
Jean Nouvel
Play
Architecture
Game
" I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. "
Janet Echelman
Architecture
Art
College
" I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret. "
Bernard Tschumi
Regret
Never
Father
" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Slow
Structure
Architecture
" 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 think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. "
George Hickenlooper
History
Film
Art
" 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. "
Michael Ende
Building
Architecture
People
" You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? "
Patricia Marx
Architecture
Start
Culture
" I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. "
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Science
Breakfast
Art
" Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. "
Theodor Mommsen
Art
Find
Nothing
" I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. "
Glenn Ligon
Art
Live
Architecture
" The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. "
Sufjan Stevens
Architecture
You
World
" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "
Jake Barton
Architecture
Moving
People
" Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. "
Bob Barr
Architecture
Beautiful
Good
" As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. "
Harry von Zell
Space
Architecture
Mission
" The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. "
Adolf Loos
People
Work
Future
" I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. "
Maya Lin
Choose
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