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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it is modern architecture.

I love a lot of things, and I am pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I do be an obsessive hairdresser.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I have paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can not remember us working it out.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it is fantastic.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I do done theatricals in college, but I do done them because it was fun.

But after the time there I do had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which did not last very long.

Architecture can not fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it is not real.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.