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God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper. -- Alvar Aalto
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. -- Alvar Aalto
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. -- Oscar Niemeyer
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. -- Bjarke Ingels
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. -- Hussein Chalayan
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. -- Oscar Niemeyer
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. -- Michael Hansmeyer
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. -- Jim Woodring
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. -- Jude Deveraux
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. -- Eduardo Souto de Moura
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture. -- Prince Charles
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. -- Oscar Niemeyer

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