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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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

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 man who builds a house never really dies.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Architecture aims at Eternity

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

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 in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.