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We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.
To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.