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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. — Kenneth Clark

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. — Michael Graves

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. — Robert Wilson

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. — Philip Johnson

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip ... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears ... — Arnold Schoenberg

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. — Walter Gropius

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 is the king or queen of the arts, — Gaetano Pesce

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. — Eduardo Souto De Moura

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway,

The room is the beginning of architecture. — Louis Kahn

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element. — Vidal Sassoon

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light — Le Corbusier

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. — Frank Gehry

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design. — Cesar Pelli

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. — Peter Zumthor

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. — Harry Seidler

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. — Lebbeus Woods

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair. — Michael Graves

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano

Game design is dead. Long live the architecture of play. — Miguel Sicart

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. — Jaime Lerner

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. — Bjarke Ingels

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. — Michael Graves

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity. — El Lissitzky

The British love permanence more than they love beauty. — Hugh Casson

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. — Michael Graves

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing. — Andre Ovredal

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop. — Leon Krier

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body. — Christian Dior

Architecture is the work of nations — John Ruskin

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc De Clapiers

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. — Richard Meier

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture. — Tilar J. Mazzeo

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. — Ada Louise Huxtable

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. — Charlotte Bunch

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time
Is becoming the architecture of the next time. — Mark Strand

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. — Le Corbusier

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. — Yoshio Taniguchi

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. — Socrates

As scientists put it, the brain is plastic, or moldable. Yes, the actual physical architecture of the brain changes based on what happens to us. — Daniel J. Siegel

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time. — Antoine Predock

All real education is the architecture of the soul. — William Bennett

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. — Rem Koolhaas

The key to behavioral change is to pass behavioral control to the environment. — Paul Gibbons

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. — Stephen Gardiner

Dressmaking is the architecture of movement — Pierre Balmain

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. — Michelangelo

The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation. — Norris Brock Johnson

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. — Dieter Rams

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. — Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. — Zaha Hadid

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. — Christopher Nolan

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

architecture is an art of the mind that will display in front of the eyes from others which can satisfy their needs — Jan Jansen

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams. — Ivan Chtcheglov

Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware? — Michael Chabon

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life. — Arnold J. Toynbee

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness — Kengo Kuma

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. — Thom Mayne

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The future of architecture is culture. — Philip Johnson

leverage points that set us apart from the crowded marketplace. Business Architecture is all about vision, alignment — Guy Sereff

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. — Cameron Sinclair

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. — Timothy Levitch

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. — Tadao Ando

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. — Minoru Yamasaki

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. — Luis Barragan

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter. — Daniel Dennett

The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it. — Kenneth Bayes

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. — Le Corbusier

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. — Phillip E. Johnson

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time. — Bertrand Delanoe

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking — Jacque Fresco

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate. — Lebbeus Woods

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. — Annabelle Selldorf

A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured. — Louis I. Kahn

The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made — Robert C. Martin