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Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Time Architecture Slow Structure Depends Unfolding Form Inner

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Technology Architecture Real Transcends Wherever Fulfillment

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too. Luke Macfarlane

In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be. Ma Yansong

Today Together Architecture Communicate Strong Past Young Community Architects Talented Audience Form In The Past Social Agenda Worked Should Larger

A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape. Ma Yansong

Architecture Treat Situation Pay Trees City More Environment Attention Lot Modern Urban Landscape Gardens Bring

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. Ma Yansong

In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings. Ma Yansong

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting. Ma Yansong

Architecture World Thought Looking Magazines About Could Through Exciting Over Know Lot Different Interesting Much Flipped Images Started University

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. Ma Yansong

Me Architecture Part Always Ultimately Artistic Interested

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape. Ma Yansong

Architecture Space Feeling Think Tried About Shapes Context Impression Artistic Intent Really Landscape Bring Early Career

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. Ma Yansong

Nature Architecture Trying Create Landscape Copying

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture? Ma Yansong

Nature Culture Architecture Our Ourselves Has-Been More Since Make How Leave Been Legacy Discussing Office Behind Human Beijing Want Urban Ask Humankind Need Olympics

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture. Ma Yansong

Architecture Young Definition Clear Between Look Chinese Used

Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that. Ma Yansong

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us. Magnus Larsson

Architecture Wind Our Way Solid Almost Like Parts Buildings Ready-Made Hand Either Sand Then Us Need

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old. Magnus Larsson

Director Creative Architecture Old Few Changed Journalism Also Wrote Advertising Years Years Ago Off Stockholm Different Worked Many Publications Started

In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources. Magnus Larsson

Me Communication Architecture Discipline Edge Research Progression Way Bit Definitely Finding About More Gives Area Somewhat Suppose Also Exhaustive Doing Sources Lot Very Lacking Different Information Interesting Room Aspect Used

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things. Marcel Wanders

Mom Broken People Architecture Sometimes Would Take Had Stuff Return Understood Store Apart Really Mom And Dad Dad Things

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. Marco Brambilla

Music Art Fashion Architecture Free Design Think Those Free Flow More Segregated Between Disciplines America Different Europe Flow

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. Marilyn Hacker

Together Architecture Lyric Those Some Poem Poems More Individual Take Written Read Narrative Fixed Movement Moment Moments Each Descriptive

The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. Mark Frost

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