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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.
The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.
Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.
The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
In writing 'The Humans,' I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture.
Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.