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Architects design houses. I live in a home. — Peter Eisenman

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers - by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? — Bernard Levin

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. — Adolf Loos

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

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. — Michael Graves

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. — Thom Mayne

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content - driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. — John Ruskin

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. — Rem Koolhaas

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. — Quincy Jones

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. — Zaha Hadid

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. — Mario Botta

It is ridiculous to impose on people where a thing should stand, designing everything for them from the toilet to the ashtray. On the contrary, I prefer people to move their furniture so it suits them {not me!}, and it's quite natural {and I approve} when they bring in old pictures and mementos they love into a new interior, regardless of whether they are good taste or bad. — Adolf Loos

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. — Arthur Erickson

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

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