Famous Quotes: Architecture

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
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Architecture is politics.
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But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
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An important work of architecture will create polemics.
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I call architecture frozen music.
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
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A house is a machine for living in.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
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I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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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.
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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
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