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I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more experimentation. Budgets had gotten quite large for art, as they had for architecture. I'm not going to cut back. The minute someone walks through my door, I go, "That's my thing and you got to let me do it.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I am but an architectural composer.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

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.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. So I got an art degree as a default position.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.