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

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    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.

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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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

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    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).

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    I see music as fluid architecture.

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    I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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    I think about my work every minute of the day.

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

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    I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.