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As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.
— Magnus Larsson
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
— Edvard Munch
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
— Henry Ward Beecher
From the outside, it looked like it was crouching, like it knew it was an architectural outcast.
— Anonymous
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
— Michael Graves
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it,
— Lina Bo Bardi
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
— Adolf Loos
Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
— Robert Wilson
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.
— Neil Gaiman
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
— Louis Susman
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
— Stephen Gardiner
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
— Tadao Ando
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.
— Gustave Eiffel
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
— Arthur Erickson
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
— Curtis W. Fentress
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Always beware an unsigned architectural design.
— Martin Filler
I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
— Zaha Hadid
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.
— Ilona Andrews
I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.
— Peter Orner
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop ...
— Clara Fraser
My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
— Ettore Sottsass
The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.
— Vittorio Gregotti
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
— Christopher Wren
burglars are idiot masters of the built environment, drunk Jedis of architectural space.
— Geoff Manaugh
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
— Helen Keller
I'm not an architectural composer.
— Harrison Birtwistle
I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.
— Bibhu Mohapatra
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
— Vladimir Putin
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
— Kevin McCloud
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
— Zaha Hadid
God designed u to fit an architectural edifice. Discover your real self
— Ikechukwu Joseph
It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
— Paul Goldberger
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
— John Ruskin
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
— Peter Zumthor
The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.
— John Burnside
The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.
— Thomas Heatherwick
I am but an architectural composer.
— Alexander Jackson Davis