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I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different. Moshe Safdie

You Culture Building Think Resonates Out India City Architect Arkansas Feels Come Like Singapore Because Understand Buildings Essence Different Place Places Create Kansas Kansas City Need

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. Peter Zumthor

Time Great Gardening Garden Simple Walls Long Seen Long Time Believe Every Think Setting Every Time Intimacy Stay See Magical Architectural Columns Buildings Sheltered Surrounded Where Want Place Places Turns Gardens Imagine

Architecture is about public space held by buildings. Richard Rogers

Architecture Space About Buildings Public Held

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. Thom Mayne

Art You Architecture Political Diplomacy Highly Make Buildings Want Required

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. Wole Soyinka

War Suffering Evil Thought Made Sacrifice Every Fragment Way Must Unavoidable More Only Purpose Individual Share Attendant Shatter Understand Buildings Does Than Human Human Suffering Foundations

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. Yeardley Smith

You Few Monster Buildings Whine Then Create

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together. Adam Neumann

Love Together People Passion Buildings Happen To Love Bringing

I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day. Agnes Gund

Day Creativity Walk Single Past Sense Design Every Everyday Our City Windows Objects Park Inspired Dazzling Single Day Buildings Am Exhilaration Encounter Discovery Same Just Store Use Billboards Streets Every Single Day

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! Al Lewis

You People Live Thieves Think Hey Call Empty Housing Buildings Wall Wall Street Want Them Should Street Need

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. Alain Robert

World About Around Tallest Buildings Climb Climbed Five Did Even

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in. Alan Davies

Walk Old Drunk Fall Worry See London Shakespeare Along Like Globe Around Buildings Get Really Bridge Thing

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid. Aldis Hodge

Architecture Design Kid Geeky About Buildings Always Really

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings. Alex Steffen

Change Worth Important Building Important Things Energy Our Those Cities Impacts About Consumption Sharing Goods Most Talking Buildings How Priority Provide Green The Most Important Etc Patterns Transit Use Choose Transportation Actions Things Fraction Need

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills. Alex Steffen

Buy Shopping Car Long Power Big Few Our Spend Months Cities Trips Stubborn Powerful Stuff Most Practices Buildings Offer Short Centuries Us Bills Homes Wasteful Leverage

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Alexander Jackson Davis

Architecture Living Architect Most Buildings American Any Designed

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. Alfred Jarry

Unless Everything Ruins Way Fine See Only Shall Put Well Buildings Demolish Doing Lot Up Them Succeeded Use

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing. Allan Guthrie

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey. Alvar Aalto

Journey Every Buildings Italian Begins

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit. Andrea Bocelli

Me Survival Learning Made Before Grass Corner Frame Strokes All The Difference Risky Counting Buildings Climbing Coming Sounds Hear End Up Very Difference Bike Turning Riding Basic Pedal

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale. Andrew Shaffer

Architecture Plenty Scale City Buildings Built Chicago

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. Anne Campbell

Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up? Anne Stevenson

You Practice Out Find Architect Bother Pianist Never Had Buildings Heard Up Stand Stand Up Who Why Ever

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