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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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 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 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 American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

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

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

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.