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For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.
I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.
If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.