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One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

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.

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

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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