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My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

~Bernard Tschumi

Topics: Apartment Architect Architecture Austere Impose Itself Minimal Other Place Reflects Stage Take Things Views You

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The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

~Bernard Tschumi

Topics: Act Architectural Architecture Forbidden Lies Limits Most Parts Pleasure Ultimate Where

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I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

~Bernard Tschumi

Topics: About Architecture Father Never Regret Talked Which

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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Aim Architecture Ask Capabilities Common Communicate Components Does Everything Having Idea Mean Means Protocol Software Standard Systems Taking Them Thread Using You

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In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Architecture Art Big Big Picture Buildings Cities Fit Live Lives Making Our Our Lives Picture Science Sure Want Way

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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Architecture Different Different Life End Forms Life Making Me Means Possible

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Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Architecture Block Building Either House Limited Restricted Town Vocabulary

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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

Topics: Anything Anything Else Architecture Believe Board Come Crash Drawing Else Evolutionary Evolve Ideas Life Outer Outer Space Space I Believe I Believe That

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I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Accommodate Architecture Big Big Idea Forms Idea Ideology Life Like Lot More Product Rarely Really Shaped Single Think I Think

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When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Architecture Because Becomes Boring Buildings Days Good Good Old Days Had Idea Just Know Like Little Me Modern Old Old Days Ornament People Practical Say Started Studying Tell Today Towers Very Why Would You

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