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Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. Thom Mayne
Architecture Result Changing Way Testing Questions Repetitive Process Them Asking Asking Questions
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. Thom Mayne
Change Communication Architecture Believe Some Absolutely Environment Sort Behaviour Interaction Places Social Activity
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. Thom Mayne
Today Architecture World Impossible Visions Architects More Could Had Absurd Idea Nobody Heal Expects Any Often Grand Modernist Old-Fashioned
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do. Thom Mayne
Architecture Gusto Investigation Course Method Provoke Essence
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing. Thom Mayne
Service Good You People Architecture Weak Good Thing Deliver Look Passive Very Authenticity Get Blue Any Represents Where Want Door Autonomy Profession Fought Thing Resistance Violently
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. Thom Mayne
You Change People Architecture Political Believe See Primary Cultural Effect Role Artistic Social Act Activities
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. Thom Mayne
Life Service Architecture Everyday Life Job Everyday Ourselves See Architect How Story
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Struggle Architecture Independence Visited Had He Town Him Impressed Stood Little Much Little Town Washington
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. Thomas Heatherwick
Architecture Challenge Value Massive Make Real Any Real Value
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture. Thomas Heatherwick
Culture Architecture World Care Energy Enormous Almost Idea Cliched Been Historically Amount Things
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. Thomas Reid
Architecture Rules Never House Built Ship Navigation
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. Tim Gunn
Architecture Know Always Been Captivated Why
We have to base architecture on the environment. Toyo Ito
Architecture Environment Base
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. Trevor Paglen
Art Architecture Live Objects More Economies Real Than Spaces Places Series Images
I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. Trey Parker
Myself Architecture Build Building Habit Hawaii Colorado Never Idea Supposed House Got Sell Little Them Then Designed Bring
Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere. Trudie Styler
Love Art History You Architecture Beauty Every Corner Meet Everywhere Almost Heady Wonders Region Aspects Full Sweetness Special Tomatoes Garlic Soft
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet. Vint Cerf
Time You Architecture Internet Invention Important Sense System Some Network Could Idea Like Most Most Important Thing Important Thing The Most Important Them Then Grow Thing
For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them. Virgil Abloh
Music Me Architecture Made Consumed Studied Between Felt Always How Up Loved Them Who Gap Growing Growing Up Things
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. Voltaire
Fight Architecture Wild Ancient Beasts Masterpieces Greatest Built Romans
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. Walter Gropius
Future Together Architecture Will Building Painting Everything New Form Which Us Create Sculpture Let Us
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. Walter Gropius
Art Together Creative Architecture Painting Inseparable Components New Practical Disciplines Effort Crafts Sculpture Whole Bring
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue. Walter Gropius
Architecture Stage Confuse Architects Main Development New Obstacles Issue Encountered Very Personal Conflicting Theories Helped Serious Early
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. Yoshio Taniguchi
Hope Architecture Will Tea Enjoy Something Container Much Basically
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. Zaha Hadid
Fashion You Architecture Space Herself Object About How Person Place Places
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. Zaha Hadid
Time Blame Women Architecture Men Long Long Time Building Difficult Think Society No Reason Particularly Industry Clients Were Male Want Reason
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. Zaha Hadid
Love Architecture Think Too Bit City Matches Miami Commercial Really
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