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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.

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

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.

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

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

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

I do not find Hollywood interesting, so I am thinking of studying architecture instead.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It is just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

When I am in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I am a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I have never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

I have always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.