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People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Really it becomes a question of architecture. How do you move people through a space and allow them to have an experience? I, probably more than most people, suffer from museum fatigue. I always want to just stay still or sit in a chair and look at one thing, but that's not the experience of the museum.

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone thinks architecture has to be subservient to sustainability, but what if we thought in the other direction, like, what can sustainability do to make architecture more exciting?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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