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

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 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.

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 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 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.

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

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

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.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

I see music as fluid architecture.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

I think that Democrats have to think through answers we haven't in the past: How we are going to create those jobs? How should we restructure the entire tax code? Should we have things like a payroll tax, when jobs are so scarce? They weren't - basically the architecture of our employment law, tax law, all these things were from the 1930s - and I do think that one benefit of Donald Trump, which is not worth it, but one perverse thing is, he has widened the scope of things that we should discuss.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry Riley talking about how he thinks so much about cinema. I'd love to see more of a rupture between mediums and a flow between them.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.