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Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange

Nature Long Design Arbitrary Purely Expected Cannot Designs Last

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. Kenzo Tange

Great Architecture Society Considerations Cities Importance Informational Technological

I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement. Kirsten Vangsness

Art Statement Dress Dressing Like Look How Little

I'm really proud of being part of that whole geek/chic, girl nerds, glasses are sexy and all of that because I think it's true. In America, I don't know about in other places, but there is this mythology about the way a woman is supposed to be and look and act and that's what makes them sexy. And I love being the alternative to that. Kirsten Vangsness

Love Woman Glasses Girl Think Other Way Nerds Sexy About Mythology Part True Supposed Know Look Alternative Because Makes Proud America Being Places Them Really Act Whole

I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.' Kirsten Vangsness

Gay Minutes Like She Said Fame Oh Want Moment

You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about. Kirsten Vangsness

Great You People Word Girl Lesbian Think Everybody Jodie Foster Would About Argue Never Feel Like Still Role Role Models Models Jane Straight Even Foster Watched Playing

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off. Lawrence Halprin

I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things. Lawrence Halprin

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. Lawrence Halprin

Me People Walk Reading Beginning Nice Way Say Hoped Would Would-Be Able Examining Something True Also Blocks Very Just Forgot In The Beginning Quotations Place Use Nice Way Fountain

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art. Lawrence Halprin

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good. Lawrence Halprin

Good Me People Getting Older Benefits Few Depend Pain Older Believe Think More Most Because Very Getting Them Really Butt

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative. Lawrence Halprin

I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it. Lawrence Halprin

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. Lawrence Halprin

War Creative Felt Lot Act Creative Act

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. Leon Battista Alberti

Painting Alive Seem Divine Almost Contains Dead Force Makes Which

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Leon Battista Alberti

Great City Small Like House Turn

Men can do all things if they will. Leon Battista Alberti

Will Men All Things Things

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once? Leon Krier

Once Monuments Memorial Memorials Vast Over House Comfortably WWII Lincoln Six Size Eisenhower Should Jefferson Washington Twice Why Two

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. Leon Krier

Embodiment Small Perfect Absolutely Small Town New Town Up Grew

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived. Leon Krier

Genius Problem Problems Car Resolve Enormous Solution Tried Drew Something Paris He Idea Conceived Most Demolish Bloody Dictators Artist Order Which Centre Even Adapt

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