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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 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.

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

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.

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.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

For me, architecture is a social act.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

Home is where you hang your architect.

Home is where you hang your head.

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.

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.

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 am but an architectural composer.

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

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

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 cry out for order and find it only in art.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.