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There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do other things while you're listening to music and of course, you can do other things while you're in the middle of architecture. The notion of multi-attention seems to me like it's the keynote to the beginning of the 21st century.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.