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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
— Edwin Arnold
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
— Louis Kahn
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
— Zaha Hadid
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
— Jeanne Gang
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
— Charlie Chaplin
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..
— John Pawson
Be the best, not necessarily the original.
— I.M. Pei
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.
— Eduardo Souto De Moura
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
— Marshall McLuhan
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
— Nathaniel Kahn
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
— Adolf Loos
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
— Roman Coppola
It's time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
— Zaha Hadid
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
— Daniel Libeskind
Do you know how hard and expensive architecture school is? People drop out to go to med school because it's easier.
— Andrea Laurence
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
— Zaha Hadid
I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.
— Michael Ian Black
The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it's burning down.
— Justin Davidson
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
— Peter Zumthor
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
— Harry Seidler
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
— Frank Gehry
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
— Daniel Libeskind
Let's do it right. This is for the ages.
— I.M. Pei
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
— Louis Kahn
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
— Philip Treacy
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
— Lenny Kravitz
There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.
— Rem Koolhaas
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
— Jean Nouvel
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
— Louis Sullivan
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
— Samuel Butler
The Office's prime approach to architecture ... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.
— Cedric Price
There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
— Bernard Rudofsky
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
— Martha Graham
If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.
— Evelyn Waugh
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
— Arne Jacobsen
Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.
— Barbara Delinsky
There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.
— Bill Henson
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
— Robert Palmer
It's not my duty as an architect to look at it
— Zaha Hadid
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.
— Jandy Nelson
Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude
— Marcel Breuer
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both.
— Karl Lagerfeld
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,
— Eero Saarinen
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
— Le Corbusier
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
— Thom Mayne
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
— Arne Jacobsen
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ...
— Larry Wall
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
— Mark Twain
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
— Charles Jencks
The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.
— Emily Haines
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
— Tadao Ando
I am but an architectural composer.
— Alexander Jackson Davis
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
— Elvis Costello
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.
— Timothee Besset
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
— Thomas Reid
Architecture is the work of nations
— John Ruskin
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
— John Osborne
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
— David Chipperfield
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
— James Polshek
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
— Helmut Jahn
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
— Leon Krier
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
— Bjarke Ingels
I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
He's so obsessed with trying to analyze the architecture
— Jack McDevitt
The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
— Jacque Fresco
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
— Nancy Banks-Smith
In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.
— Winifred Gallagher
