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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

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. So I got an art degree as a default position.

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

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.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

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.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and architecture. You can't ignore what's around you, but at the same time, an artist who has a sophisticated form language knows how to pull in different elements, and readjust and redirect those. . . . So it becomes an engineering process, too.

I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

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.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.