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

  Santiago Calatrava

  Art, Sculpture, Frontiers

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• I am always searching for more light and space.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Light, Space

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• Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

  Shigeru Ban

  People, House, Invisible

  "Paper Palaces" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2014.

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• Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Motivation, Inspiration, Believe

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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.

  Daniel Libeskind

  New York, Mean, Trying

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Powerful, Photographer, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

  Al Sharpton

  Philosophy, Pyramids, White

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• If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Mandelbaum (2005). “The Meaning Of Sports”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Thinking, Design

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• Lyrical lecture, word architecture,
  Rap director, the best in my sector.
  Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech...
  I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Hip Hop, Directors

  Song: Baby, You Nasty

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• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Equality, Reality, House

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• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  Parker Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Design

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

  Zaha Hadid

  School, Thinking, Space

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• Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Social Values, Imagination, Design

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• Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.

  Joshua Prince-Ramus

  Determination, Team, People

  "The Architect of a Different Kind of Organization" by Jena Mcgregor, www.fastcompany.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, People, Design

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• When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

  Stephen Kanner

  Design, Understanding, Site

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• Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

  Claudio Silvestrin

  Beautiful, Giving, Decor

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• We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Space, World, Divinity

  "Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

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• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Half, Painting

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• There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not neglect. For example, energy, resources, costs, social aspects - one must always pay attention to all these.

  Eduardo Souto de Moura

  Intelligent, Energy, Example

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• God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

  Alvar Aalto

  Drawing, Abuse, Purpose

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• Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

  Alvar Aalto

  Civilization, Culture

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