Architecture Quotes
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When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.
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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
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The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.
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As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
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I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
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Architecture aims at Eternity.
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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
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I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
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In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
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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.
