The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

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• Daniel Libeskind:

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

• Louis Kahn:

  Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to h

• Alvar Aalto:

  Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same

• Bjarke Ingels:

  I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrat

• Neri Oxman:

  I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction.

• Antoni Gaudi:

  Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

• Christopher Alexander:

  We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet des

• Michael Graves:

  I don't believe in morality in architecture.

• Tadao Ando:

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

• Rem Koolhaas:

  We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.