Architecture : (81) " Sorry, I don’t do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs. " - Laurie Graham " The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In ‘Double Dragon,’ we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. " - D. B. Weiss " It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it. " - Edvard Munch " The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden. " - Anouska Hempel " We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of ‘the use.’ Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. " - Christian de Portzamparc " God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. " - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola " I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. " - Antoine Predock " We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they’re only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I’m making an outlandish statement. " - Dan Phillips " My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn’t want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. " - Ma Yansong " In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. " - Peter Zumthor