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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

Architecture is politics.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

Architecture is invention.

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.