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The room within is the great fact about the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

— Annie Dillard

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but…

— Albert Hadley

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

— Gottfried Bohm

“Why? Why use the room as introduction to an apologia? Because the room, though windowless and cold at night, is a hothouse. Because the…

— Thomas Pynchon

“For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

— Bill Henson

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

The room is the beginning of architecture.

— Louis Kahn