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" Color is a very critical thing. I’ve found that architects don’t like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. " - John Hench

" The architecture in Florence is light years ahead of anywhere I’ve ever been in terms of beauty and design. " - Evan Mock

" The Palais Garnier was part of my childhood, my pseudo-adolescence, my life. " - Sylvie Guillem

" There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement – publicly sponsored housing. " - Martin Filler

" I think about architecture all the time. That’s the problem. But I’ve always been like that. I dream it sometimes. " - Zaha Hadid

" I don’t understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white. " - Richard Rogers

" Buildings are forms of performances. " - Rafael Vinoly

" I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness… I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use. " - Peter Zumthor

" I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings. " - Ekta Kapoor

" You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they’d become architects. I’ve had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that’s normal. " - Leon Krier