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Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Leon Krier

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

Michael Hansmeyer

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

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

Richard Rogers

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Tadao Ando

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Toyo Ito

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

Thom Mayne

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Trey Parker

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

Zaha Hadid

Muchas cosas que son llamadas “secretos” son únicamente cosas que les son negadas a la gente hasta que puedan comprenderlas o efectivamente vivenciarlas.

Aprender a aprender

Non passa mai, per gli uomini e le nazioni, il tempo di rendersi ridicoli e venire alle mani.

Anna dai Capelli Rossi: La valle dell'arcobaleno

La gente que no puede confiar son ellos mismos no confiables, y por lo tanto, no se les puede confiar cosas importantes.

Sufi Thought and Action

El Sufismo, dicen, es aquello que le permite a uno entender la religión, cualquiera sea su actual forma exterior.

Sufi Thought and Action

...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

The Square Book

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

The Square Book

Es la historia de las mariposas, Martín; las que no mueren, conservan para siempre las señales del fuego que les quemó las alas - Rafael san Luis

Martín Rivas

Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois.

Les Trois Mousquetaires & Vingt ans après

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

Les caractères

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

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