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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

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

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

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

"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."

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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."

"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."

"I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business."

"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."

"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."

"If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture."

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

"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."

"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."

"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."

"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."

"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."

"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."

"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community."

"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."

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

"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."

"Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture."

"All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment."

"Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis."

"Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture."

"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."

"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."

"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."

"We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that."

"Architecture in general is frozen music."

"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."

"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."

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