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In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

I see music as fluid architecture.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

I think that Democrats have to think through answers we haven't in the past: How we are going to create those jobs? How should we restructure the entire tax code? Should we have things like a payroll tax, when jobs are so scarce? They weren't - basically the architecture of our employment law, tax law, all these things were from the 1930s - and I do think that one benefit of Donald Trump, which is not worth it, but one perverse thing is, he has widened the scope of things that we should discuss.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry Riley talking about how he thinks so much about cinema. I'd love to see more of a rupture between mediums and a flow between them.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.