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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

Architecture is invention.

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.