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There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

~Annabelle Selldorf

Topics: Activity Am Approach Architect Architecture Area Attached Because Build Different Exciting How Library Much Now Reading Scrutiny Social Technology Very Want Who I Am

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Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

~Annabelle Selldorf

Topics: Architecture Elements Inexplicable Interesting Must Mysterious Perfectly Poetic Quality Rational Should Something Tension

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The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

~Annabelle Selldorf

Topics: Architecture Eye Good Having Meets More Secret Than The Secret Of

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Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

~Anne Fortier

Topics: Age Architecture Art Been Childhood Ever Everything Facts Figures Forth History Interested Just Literature Myth Our Past Perception Shape Since

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I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.

~Anouska Hempel

Topics: Aligned Architecture Be Strong Big Controlled Designer Furniture Got Interior Make Must Package Rooms Sense Strong Trouble Up Windows You

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Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

~Anthony Holden

Topics: Architecture Charles First Freedom Had He His Impact Intent King Made Make Mark Prince Really Still Subject Use Very Wales While Years

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Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

~Antoine Predock

Topics: Architecture Body Experience Fish Gathering Moving School See Space Together Underwater

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Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

~Antoine Predock

Topics: Architecture Intellectual Physical Ride

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The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.

~Antoine Predock

Topics: Architecture Body Building Choreography Cinematography Cities Creating Dance Day Episodic Every Every Day Fashion Film Moments Movement Moves Occur Open-Ended Options Personal See Sort Space Through Way Where Within I See

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A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

~Antoine Predock

Topics: Advocacy Animal Architecture Because Becomes Building Cause Environmental Good Great Kind Political Really Responsibility Think Through Way I Think

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