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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. Donald Barthelme

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Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone. Donald Bren

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I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. Donna Karan

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The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature. Doug Aitken

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'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. Doug Aitken

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I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. Doug TenNapel

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. Drew Barrymore

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There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. Edwin Lutyens

Great Architecture Will Architects Never Without

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. Edwin Lutyens

Game Architecture Thought Through Fails Means Hard

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. Elizabeth Diller

Art Architecture School Feeling About Ideas Art School

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. Elizabeth Diller

Grateful Women Architecture Has-Been Am Been Forever Movement

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. Elizabeth Diller

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Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities. Elizabeth Diller

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When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. Elizabeth Diller

Architecture Studying Intellectually Bankrupt

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. Emilio Ambasz

Good Architecture School Princeton Undergraduate Sublime University

There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect. Eric Dane

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. Ernest Dimnet

Soul Architecture Slowly Most Surely Arts Which Acts

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. Frances Mayes

Art Food History People Architecture Think Stayed Because Italy Initially

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. Francisco Costa

Art Architecture Design Inspired Always Influence Process Landscapes Many Things

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. Frank Gehry

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. Frank Gehry

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I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. Frank Gehry

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