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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 architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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

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

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

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

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 man who builds a house never really dies.

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

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

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

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

Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Architecture aims at Eternity

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

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.