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I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

I think that Democrats have to think through answers we haven't in the past: How we are going to create those jobs? How should we restructure the entire tax code? Should we have things like a payroll tax, when jobs are so scarce? They weren't - basically the architecture of our employment law, tax law, all these things were from the 1930s - and I do think that one benefit of Donald Trump, which is not worth it, but one perverse thing is, he has widened the scope of things that we should discuss.

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

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

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry Riley talking about how he thinks so much about cinema. I'd love to see more of a rupture between mediums and a flow between them.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

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.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Minimal art went nowhere.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North America. It's not quite Canada and it's not quite America, and it's definitely got this very Euro feel to it. It's a very, very interesting city.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.