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• My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

  Nick Park

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Maker, Architectural

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people’s lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  Zaha Hadid

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Museums, Architectural

• People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that’s ok.

  Zaha Hadid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Architectural, Design

• New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable – but certainly surmountable.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Architectural

• If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you’ve never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different – I think that’s masterful.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Architectural

• Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Project, Architectural

• I’d say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends – architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their ‘architectures’ as well.

  Rem Koolhaas

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• Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

  Rem Koolhaas

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  Tags in Architectural

• I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex – where it has stood before – and lead the world.

  Tadao Ando

  Tags in Architectural