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Sculptor Inspirational Quotes (6125)

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From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
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Architecture is particularly difficult for women there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.
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The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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They all come out from the same thing all the projects are connected somehow.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
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I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
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