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Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
Robert Palmer on architecture

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Marilyn Hacker on architecture

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
Tim Gunn on architecture

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca on architecture

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Thom Mayne on architecture

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi on architecture

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
Arne Jacobsen on architecture

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
Arne Jacobsen on architecture

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
Arne Jacobsen on architecture

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
Arne Jacobsen on architecture

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
Michael Mandelbaum on architecture

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
Joel Coen on architecture

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
Bob Barr on architecture

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
Tony Scott on architecture

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
Rem Koolhaas on architecture

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
Rem Koolhaas on architecture

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
Marc Newson on architecture

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
Sydney Pollack on architecture

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
Parker Stevenson on architecture

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
Parker Stevenson on architecture