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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?

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

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

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

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

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.

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

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

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

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

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.

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

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.

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

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 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.