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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I do not want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

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.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

I could have been an architect, but I do not think I do have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

I see music as fluid architecture.