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I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things. -- Jason Wu
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. -- Richard Rogers
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. -- Daryl Hall
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. -- Vladimir Putin
I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice. -- Annabelle Selldorf
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. -- Thom Mayne
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. -- Richard Rogers
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. -- Peter Zumthor
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. -- Nick Clegg
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. -- Christian de Portzamparc
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. -- Sebastian Bach
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past -- Roger Scruton
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
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
I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to. -- Rob Chapman

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