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“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.”

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Author:Zaha Hadid

“Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.”

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Author:John Mercer Johnson

“The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.”

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Author:Kevin McCloud

“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.”

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Author:Renzo Piano

“Home is where you hang your architect.”

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Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.”

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Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“When we build, let us think that we build forever.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”

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Author:Norman Foster

“I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.”

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Author:Frank Gehry

“There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.”

“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.”

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Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.”

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Book:El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts

Source: El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts

“In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.”

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Author:Oskar Schlemmer

“The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.”

“Form ever follows function.”

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Author:Louis Sullivan

“Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.”

“Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.”

“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”

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Author:Ernest Dimnet

“It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.”

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Book:The Letters of Michelangelo

Source: The Letters of Michelangelo

“The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.”

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Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.”

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Book:Frank Stella at 2000

Source: Frank Stella at 2000

“Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.”

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Book:Architecture as space: how to look at architecture

Source: Architecture as space: how to look at architecture

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”

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Author:David Allan Coe

“Each new situation requires a new architecture.”

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Author:Jean Nouvel

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”

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Book:Opus 1, Le Corbusier

Source: Opus 1, Le Corbusier

“A design isn't finished until someone is using it.”

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Author:Brenda Laurel

“Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.”

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Author:Mark Wigley

“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.”

“But the building's identity resided in the ornament.”

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Author:Louis Sullivan

“I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.”

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Book:Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography

Source: Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography

“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.”

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Author:Tadao Ando

“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”

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Author:Arthur Erickson

“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.”

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