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• One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Humble, Russia, Paris

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

  Martin Filler

  War, Machines, World

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• Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

  Kenzo Tange

  Vitality, Inconsistency

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• Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

  Martin Filler

  Design, Quality, Typical

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• To create, one must first question everything.

  Eileen Gray

  Creativity, Creating, Design

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• I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

  Tadao Ando

  Moving, People, Inspire

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• You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now.” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist.” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Smart, Eye

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.107, Penguin

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• This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Soul, Might, Wreckage

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.390, Vintage

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

  David Chipperfield

  Badass, Mean, Bad Ass

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• May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

  Augustus

  Latin, Government, Desire

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Understanding, Unhappiness

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

  Walt Whitman

  Ready, Materials

  "Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856".

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• People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

  Tom Kundig

  Badass, Home, Mean

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• I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Home, Humility

  Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.

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• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Form ever follows function.

  Louis Sullivan

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

  'The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered' (1896)

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• Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  Jean Nouvel

  Architecture, Situation, Architecture And Design

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• The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

  Peter Eisenman

  Comforting, Architecture, Remember

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• There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

  Zaha Hadid

  Degrees, Sticks, Architecture

  "Master builder". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

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• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Loner, Force Of Will

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• During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.

  Martin Filler

  Jobs, Ideas, Income

  Luis Fernández Galiano, Martin Filler (2000). “El siglo americano: The American century”

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• I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

  Cecil Balmond

  Nice, Paper, Pencils

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• When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

  Richard Meier

  Mother, Art, Believe

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