"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
4
"All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial."
5
"Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time."
4
"Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art."
5
"Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that."
3
"In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings."
6
"I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes."
11
"Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work."
4
"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."
4
"Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male."
3
"It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape."
4
"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
3
"Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time."
3
"It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise."
5
"The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it."
5
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
5
"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
6
"It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth."
5
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
3
"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
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