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I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Acting Architects Brand Business Executives Goods Idea Like Luxury Managers Suspicious

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Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Actor Architects Audience Buildings Different Hard Languages Like Look Loose Make Often Our Own Parts Private Same Same Time Speaking Stage Time Too Trying Without Work

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One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

~David Ulevitch

Topics: Architects Bosses Business Connect Early Happened He How Internet Learned Make Me My Own Own Providers Running Small Small Business Some Taught Telecom Up Way Ways Work

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If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: American Architect Architects Argentina Designed Early Eye Great Great American Guys Had Idea Infrastructure Like National National Park Park Public Public Eye Take Thrust Vision Who You

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Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.

~Dries Van Noten

Topics: Architects Bacon Career Chanel Christian Different Different People Dior Endless Francis Inspired List Me Musicians People Throughout Various

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L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

~Dylan Walsh

Topics: About Architects Attention Best Box Box Office Course Culture Defines Else Everything Friends Going Here Important Industry Know Likely Much New New York Newspaper Office Part Ratings Reporters Too Too Much Who York You Your

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There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

~Edwin Lutyens

Topics: Architects Architecture Great Never Will Without

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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

~Eli Broad

Topics: Architect Architects Best Client Get Results Strong Strong-Willed Together Working Working Together You

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Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly happy when we walk away. It doesn't feel like quite enough.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Architects Away Bit Bring Enough Feel Happy Inherit Invention Like Little Little Bit Maybe Our Own Perfectly Programme Programmes Quite Sites Twist Walk

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Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Always Architects Been Construction Correctly Details Equals Executed Food Looking Site

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