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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

— Zaha Hadid

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

— Dan Phillips

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

— Richard Engel

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

— Luis Barragan

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

— Peter Zumthor

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

— Vera Wang

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

— Drew Barrymore

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.

— Rem Koolhaas

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

— Moshe Safdie

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

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