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Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.