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Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

Business Architecture Progress Story

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Architecture Environment Base

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

Art Architecture Political You Want

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

Architecture Know Little Get Older

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

Live Art Architecture Places More

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

Myself Architecture World Book Lucky

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Culture Architecture Project Years

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

Music Architecture Drama Classic

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

Culture Creativity Architecture More

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Architecture Job People Book You

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

Romesh Gunesekera

History Architecture Strange Office

I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.

Marcus Brigstocke

Sea Beautiful Architecture Mountains

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

Moment Together Architecture Moments

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Music Time Architecture Kind Mean

I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.

Kathryn Harrison

Mother Architecture Woman Angry Her

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Time Architecture Past Forward Own

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

Architecture Yourself Looking Doing

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.

Architecture First Europe Spread

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

Architecture Death Me Design Say

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture Space Will Epoch

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Business Art Service Architecture

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Goals Live Architecture People Who

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Time Art Quality Architecture Cost

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Beautiful Great Architecture City

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