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

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

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

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.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.