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Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

For me, architecture is a social act.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

Home is where you hang your head.

Home is where you hang your architect.

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

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

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

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 cry out for order and find it only in art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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 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.

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

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

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