" A house is a machine for living in"

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" Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, or forms assembled in the light"

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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"

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"less is more"

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"Less is bore"

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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space"

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"Forms follows function"

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"The mother art is architecture, without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

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"Space is the breath of art"

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"An idea is salvation by imagination"

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"The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use."

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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."

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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us"

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"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of cultivated enriched heart"

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"When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible."

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A museum is a place where one should lose one's head

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"The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams."

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"As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown"

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"Architecture is an expression of values."

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"Architecture begins where engineering ends"

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"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness"

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"98% of what gets built today is shit"

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"My work is not about 'form follows function', but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine."

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"Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It`s based on wonder."

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"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see"

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"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty.

But when I've finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it's wrong"

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"Supply and demand regulate architectural form"

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"Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure."

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

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"Design of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long"

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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design"

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"When we build, let us think that we build forever"

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"The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comfort us"

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"To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect"

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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design"

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"When we build, let us think that we build forever"

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"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan"

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"A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurables means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured"

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"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, and love."

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"The essential element in architecture is the manipulation of space. It is this essence which seperated it from all other arts."

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"Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence"

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"I am always searching for more light and space"

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"Ornamental has been, is, and will polychrome. Nature does not present us with an object in monochrome, totally uniform with respect to colour not in vegetation, not in geology, not in topography, not int he animal kingdom. Always the contrast of colour is more re less lively, and for this reason we must colour wholly or in part every architectural element."

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"I believe that the material doesn't need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material"

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"For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can`t in larger projects"

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"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men`s blood.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserted itself with ever-growing insistence."

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"There is a rumor that I can`t draw and neve could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine"

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"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."

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"My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we-architects-can affect the quality of life of the people"

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"Architecture aims at eternity"

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"Each new situation requires a new architecture."

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"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."

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

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"What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state."

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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function"

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"The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy."

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"Architecture is a visual art, and the building speak for themselves."

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"Architecture is the design of space, both interior and exterior. So, it`s much more closely related to dance than it is to painting or sculpture."

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"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminated the very source of architectural expression."

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"Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friend, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience."

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"The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams."

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

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"Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces wellbeing."

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"Tradition is a challenge to innovation"

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"Architecture is much more than a profession; It`s a discipline."

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"Our ultimate goal, therefore, was the composite but inseparable work of art- the great building-in which the old dividing line between monumental and decorative would have disappeared forever."

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"Architecture isn`t just about creating new buildings, sometimes it's about returning what`s already there."

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