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" In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. "

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" At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. "

" The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. "

Bernard Tschumi

" In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. "

" I like the architecture of lingerie. "

" First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. "

Gustav Stickley

" I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. "

" What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? "

" The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. "

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

" Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. "

Arthur Erickson

" Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. "

" I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. "

Preston Sturges

" I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. "

" I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. "

" Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. "

Elizabeth Diller

" Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce. "

David Chipperfield

" I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. "

" 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. "

" We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. "

Winston Churchill

" Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness. "

" I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place. "

" People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. "

" Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea. "

" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "

" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "

" I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. "

" In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul. "

" Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. "

" Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. "