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

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" I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. "

" The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development. "

" It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me. "

" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "

" Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. "

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

" The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. "

" If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. "

" An important work of architecture will create polemics. "

" I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. "

" Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. "

" Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. "

" Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. "

" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "

" Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone. "

" When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture. "

" Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. "

" I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn't rehearsing my lines; I'd be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre. "

" One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. "

" If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" The word 'modern' is a cliche. "

" I am a magpie. My eye collects details. "

" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "

" If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that. "

" I used to sock hop to 'Crocodile Rock' and stare at those platform boots on the album cover. "

" I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. "

" So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. "

" My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. "