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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

Annabelle Selldorf

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Bjarke Ingels

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Bernard Tschumi

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

David Chipperfield

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Harry Seidler

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Eisenman

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

Peter Eisenman

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

Rem Koolhaas

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Richard Rogers

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

Tadao Ando

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Toyo Ito

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

Thom Mayne

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

Zaha Hadid

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

The Architecture of Community

Le Nègre selon National Geographic

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La palabra "elección" es un fraude mientras la gente elija sólo lo que le han enseñado a elegir.

Reflexiones

Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquisten a uno el amor que para conquistarlo.

Niebla

C'est exaltant, comme d'ouvrir une cage, et c'est déprimant, comme de tirer sur le fil d'un vieux chandail.

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