"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."

Architecture, Vision, Earth, Heaven

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"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."

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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Architecture, Music, Work, Literature

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Acting, Planning, Right

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Architecture, Influence, Creativity, Life

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

Architecture, Design, Future, Creation, Mindset

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

Steven Magee, British Author

Architecture, Design, Environment, Darkness

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Architecture, Environment, Impact, Design, Life

"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Architecture, History, Innovation, Irony

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Architecture, Space, Life, Essence

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Architecture, Poetry, Dress, Man

"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Architecture, Art, Observation, Design

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"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."

Work

"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that."

God

"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world."

Architecture

"Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean."

Education

"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny."

Enemy

"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas."

Creativity

"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."

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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."

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"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."

"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that."

"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world."

"Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean."

"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny."

"The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture."

"I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else."

"I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House."

"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas."

"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."