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We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

-Winston Churchill

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Whatever good things we build end up building us.

-Jim Rohn

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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

-Ayn Rand

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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

-Ayn Rand

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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

-Frank Lloyd Wright

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

-John Ruskin

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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

-Frank Lloyd Wright

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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

-Thomas Fuller

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

-Frank Gehry

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Less is more.

-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.

-Luis Barragan

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

-Philip Johnson

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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 effect the quality of life of the people.

-Richard Rogers

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

-Alvar Aalto

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

-Noel Coward

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A house is a machine for living in.

-Le Corbusier

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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

-Louis Kahn

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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

-Antonio Gaudi

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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

-Yoshio Taniguchi

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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

-Le Corbusier

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

-Tadao Ando

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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

-Arthur Erickson

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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

-Arthur Erickson

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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

-Maya Lin

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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

-Louis Kahn

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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

-Alvar Aalto

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Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

-Daniel Burnham

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

-Adolf Loos

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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

-Daniel Libeskind

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