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

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

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

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

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

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

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

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

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

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 principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.