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I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

~ Lou Duva

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

~ Renzo Piano

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

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

~ Tadao Ando

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

~ Bernard Tschumi

I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.

~ Anouska Hempel

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

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

~ Renzo Piano

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

~ Delia Ephron

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

~ Richard Rogers

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.

~ Frank Stella

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

~ Tadao Ando

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

~ Zaha Hadid

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

~ Louis Sullivan

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

~ Bill Gates

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

~ Moby

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

~ Denis Villeneuve

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

~ Nate Berkus

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

~ Arthur Erickson

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

~ Thom Mayne

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

~ Dan Brown

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

~ Philip Johnson

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

~ Charlie Cox

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

~ Michael Graves

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

~ Paul Rand

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

~ Alex Winter

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.

~ Ben Nicholson

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

~ David Chipperfield

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

~ Ian Hamilton Finlay

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

~ Leon Krier

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

~ Cesar Pelli

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

~ Hugh Hardy

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

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

~ Saul Steinberg

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

~ Nancy Banks-Smith

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

~ Betty Ford

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

~ Mahalia Jackson

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

~ Stephen Breyer

What you get free costs too much.

~ Jean Anouilh

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

~ John Trudell