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Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

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.

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

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

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.

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

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

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

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

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

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

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.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

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.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

Home is where you hang your head.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

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 architect.

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

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 but an architectural composer.

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 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 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.

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.

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