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Home is where you hang your architect.

Home is where you hang your head.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more experimentation. Budgets had gotten quite large for art, as they had for architecture. I'm not going to cut back. The minute someone walks through my door, I go, "That's my thing and you got to let me do it.

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

I am but an architectural composer.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. So I got an art degree as a default position.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.