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Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North America. It's not quite Canada and it's not quite America, and it's definitely got this very Euro feel to it. It's a very, very interesting city.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

My favorite project is always the next one.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.