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I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.
To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.
I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.
I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.
Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.