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But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

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

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.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

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.

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

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

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

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

For me, architecture is a social act.

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

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

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

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

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.

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

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