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This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do other things while you're listening to music and of course, you can do other things while you're in the middle of architecture. The notion of multi-attention seems to me like it's the keynote to the beginning of the 21st century.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone's so poor these days, the '90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone's too poor to put up new buildings. He said that code is the architecture of the '90s.

All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life.

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must be instructed how to Cast them with due Care. It is only the Darknesse that can give trew Forme to our Work and trew Perspective to our Fabrick, for there is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe (and I turn this Thought over in my Mind: what Life is there which is not a Portmanteau of Shaddowes and Chimeras?). I build in the Day to bring News of the Night and of Sorrowe, I continued, and then I broke off for Walter's sake.

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.

Architectural education is notably under-theorised as an underlying discipline, though is clearly intensely theorised as a set of surface actions. It has remained largely unbothered by reformist educational movements such as critical pedagogy, with the result that its central structures and methods have altered little since they were founded in the École des Beaux Arts in the early C19.