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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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

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

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 fight forces, use them.

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

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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 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.

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.

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.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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.

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

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.

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.