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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.

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.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

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.

Home is where you hang your architect.

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.

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.

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

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 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 immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

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 am but an architectural composer.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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.

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

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.

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 I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.