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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. -- Zaha Hadid
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. -- Tadao Ando
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. -- Philip Johnson
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. -- Bjarke Ingels
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. -- Robert Wilson
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. -- Thom Mayne
Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space. -- Martin Rees
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. -- Steven Holl
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place. -- Antony Gormley
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. -- Antoine Predock
If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. -- Peter Zumthor
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space -- Louis Kahn
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space. -- Louis Kahn
Architecture is not about space but about time. -- Vito Acconci
Architecture is about public space held by buildings. -- Richard Rogers
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. -- Philip Johnson
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. -- Philip Johnson
Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account. -- Wade Guyton
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams. -- Ivan Chtcheglov
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. -- Tadao Ando
The show is called The Office, and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. -- Brian Baumgartner
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. -- Thom Mayne
The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. -- Brian Baumgartner
The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity. -- El Lissitzky
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' -- Antoine Predock
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture. -- Brian Foote
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
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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. -- Zaha Hadid
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. -- Tadao Ando
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space. -- Curt Sachs
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights. -- Barbara Kruger
I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack. -- Jim Carrey
Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster. -- Jean Nouvel

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