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" About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper. "
Max Walker
" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "
Ayn Rand
" A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels. "
David Chipperfield
" A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. "
Helmut Jahn
" A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "
Christian Dior
" Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be. "
Sara Bareilles
" After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. "
Harry Seidler
" 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
" After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. "
Harry Seidler
" A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. "
Louis Kahn
" A house is a machine for living in. "
Le Corbusier
" A lasting architecture has to have roots. "
I. M. Pei
" All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. "
Tadao Ando
" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
" 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
" All real education is the architecture of the soul. "
William Bennett
" All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! "
T. E. Lawrence
" All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. "
Tadao Ando
" Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. "
Ma Yansong
" A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. "
Lord Byron
" And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. "
Arne Jacobsen
" An important work of architecture will create polemics. "
Richard Meier
" Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. "
Rem Koolhaas
" Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. "
Richard Meier
" Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. "
Joshua Prince-Ramus
" Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. "
Toyo Ito
" Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. "
John Portman
" Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. "
Bryant H. McGill
" Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. "
Kenzo Tange
" Architecture aims at Eternity. "
Christopher Wren
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