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Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Frank Gehry
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
Alexander Jackson Davis
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
James Rouse
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Louis Kahn
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
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit -- if totally different in form -- from all the romantic architecture of the past.
Dan Cruickshank
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
Richard Meier
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
Kenzo Tange
Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
Christopher Nolan
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
Jay Chiat
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
Julia Morgan
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
Parker Stevenson
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
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
