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" Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. "
Daniel Libeskind
Architecture
Winning
Competition
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" Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety. "
Hisham Matar
Architecture
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Fire
" I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. "
Maya Lin
Architecture
Character
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" The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture
Art
Quality
" I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. "
Joseph Kosinski
Creative
New York
School
" In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building. "
Alex Ebert
Create
Architecture
Building
" Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. "
Joseph Kosinski
Architecture
My Own
School
" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "
Philip Johnson
Great
Architecture
Design
" I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. "
Roger Waters
Happy
Architecture
Game
" When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead. "
Ma Yansong
Science
Thought
School
" We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred. "
Daniel Libeskind
Site
Came
Sacred
" One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. "
Oksana Baiul
Beach
Water
Vacation
" A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "
Christian Dior
Body
Architecture
Female
" Architecture is invention. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture
Invention
" When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture. "
Jonathan Anderson
Cathedral
Grandfather
Me
" As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it. "
Elizabeth Diller
Student
Architecture
Been
" Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. "
Thom Mayne
Beginning
Process
Cake
" To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. "
Thomas Heatherwick
Real
Architecture
Challenge
" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "
Robert Wilson
Been
Architecture
Always
" God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. "
Alvar Aalto
Me
Purpose
Drawing
" The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding. "
Daniel Libeskind
Government
May
Happen
" In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation. "
Kersti Kaljulaid
Start
Architecture
Push
" There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life. "
Nathaniel Kahn
Life
Architecture
Good
" You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. "
Ben Nicholson
Best
Architecture
Heaven
" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
Frank Gehry
Place
Architecture
Time
" We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. "
R. Buckminster Fuller
Architecture
Future
Victims
" In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. "
Peter Zumthor
Speak
Language
Society
" 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
" When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay. "
Joanna Going
Loved
School
Architecture
" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "
Dieter Rams
Architecture
Need
Look
" The building's identity resided in the ornament. "
Louis Sullivan
Architecture
Identity
Building