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A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

Architecture is politics.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.