The architecture scene in China is the most open and free…

In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very…

— Ma Yansong

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't…

— Ma Yansong

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

— Ma Yansong

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the…

— Ma Yansong

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

— Ma Yansong

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

— Ma Yansong

We proposed Tiananmen Square - this very empty political square in the city centre - should turn green. Maybe in the future, this space…

— Ma Yansong

China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second,…

— Ma Yansong

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American…

— Ted Yoho

Our destiny is as a global beacon of free trade and we cannot deliver that while bound to the declining E.U. and its protectionist…

— Priti Patel

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

— Wilbur Ross

I believe that free but fair trade is an absolute imperative.

— John E. James

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.…

— Paul Simon

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's…

— Santiago Calatrava