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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. -- Marc Newson
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. -- Charles Eames
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. -- Francisco Costa
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. -- Zaha Hadid
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. -- Renzo Piano
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. -- Alan Huffman
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. -- Marco Brambilla
I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it. -- Greg Wise
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' -- Martin Filler
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. -- John Baldacci
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. -- Herbert Simon
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. -- Arne Jacobsen
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. -- James Rouse
I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater. -- Dante Ferretti
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. -- Tadao Ando
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
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. -- Zaha Hadid
My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. -- Taylor Schilling
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. -- Ai Weiwei
To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. -- Greg Lynn
My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it -- Marco Casagrande
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. -- Brad Pitt
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. -- Philip Johnson
I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business. -- Caroline Wozniacki
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. -- Ettore Sottsass
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea. -- Lebbeus Woods
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people. -- David Adjaye
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design. -- Ai Weiwei
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. -- Stephen Gardiner
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. -- Joseph Kosinski
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies. -- Zaha Hadid
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. -- Philip Johnson
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. -- George Nelson
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture. -- Brian Foote
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair. -- Michael Graves
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think. -- Marco Brambilla
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design. -- Cesar Pelli
The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. -- Tadao Ando

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