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BEATRIZ ALÉS: "Architecture is everything planned with a human intention." (Esch, 2022, EN)

AVIANTI ARMAND: “Architecture is every space surrounding the human being and can give a meaning to it.” (Jakarta, 2019, ID & EN)


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CARLES BAIGES, LACOL: "Architecture is infrastructure that supports life." (Esch, 2022, EN)

DONALD BATES, LAB ARCHITECTURE STUDIO: "Architecture is the ordering of space." (Venice, 2014, EN)

DAVID BASULTO, ARCHDAILY: “Architecture is a mindset.” (Berlin, 2021, EN)

SEVINCE BAYRAK, SO?: “Architecture is a language that no one can understand but everyone has to hear.“ (Esch, 2022, EN)

AHMED BELKHODJA, FALA ATELIER: "Architecture is what architects attempt to communicate: it can take many forms." (Esch, 2022, EN)

AKSHAT BHATT, ARCHITECTURE DISCIPLINE: “Architecture forms the backdrop for human memories and contributes to society’s progress.” (New Dehli, 2021, EN)

BEN VAN BERKEL, UNSTUDIO: "Architecture can do more than only emphasizing its autonomy." (Amsterdam, 2014, EN) 

JACKILIN HAH BLOOM, PITA & BLOOM: “Architecture is the design of things. It’s not confined to buildings or projects.“ (Los Angeles, 2018, EN)

RICARDO E. BOFILL, RTBA: “Architecture is the object in relation with the place & environment.” (Barcelona, 2021, EN)

OANA BOGDAN, BOGDAN & VAN BROECK: "Finding the balance between running a business and doing what we actually like: creating a support for life."  (Brussels, 2014, EN)

VERA BÜHLMANN, ATTP: “Architecture is an art of articulation but in a rhetorical sense.” (Vienna, 2019, EN)


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TIAGO CARDOSO, COCA: “Architecture is a journey.” (Luxembourg, 2018, EN)

PAUL CHEMETOV: "L'architecture c'est la transformation des choses. Donc du monde et donc des hommes."  (Venice, 2014, FR)    

EMANUEL CHRIST, CHRIST & GANTENBEIN: "Architecture is the physical frame for life — at first…".  (Basel, 2014, EN)

KEES CHRISTIAANSE, KCAP: "Architecture is the translation of a program into material form."  (Zurich, 2014, EN)

ERIC CHRISTIANSEN, COCA: “Architecture is a journey.” (Luxembourg, 2018, EN)

ONDŘEJ CHYBÍK, CHYBIK+KRISTOF: "Architecture is a story." (Esch, 2022, EN)

ALESSANDRA CIANCHETTA, AWP: "Architecture is what enables human action, it is like a background, something visible and invisible."  (Paris, 2016, EN)

MARJAN COLLETTI: "Architektur ist die Kultur der Kommunikation."  (Innsbruck, 2013, DE)

PETER COOK, ARCHIGRAM & CRAB STUDIO: "Architecture is a way of thinking about life.” (Venice, 2014, EN)


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ODILE DECQ: "It’s a discipline which helps people to live."  (Luxembourg, 2015, EN)

ELKE DELUGAN-MEISSL, DMAA: “Architektur ist eine wesentliche Komponente in unserem gesellschaftlichen Zusammenleben.“ (Vienna, 2019, DE)

ROMAN DELUGAN, DMAA: “Architektur ist angewandte Physiologie.“ (Vienna, 2019, DE)

CAMILLA VAN DEURS: “Architecture creates spaces for everyday life in connection with context, history and responsibility towards climate & circularity.” (Vienna, 2021, EN)

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO, HDA-X: "Architecture is a genius solution to a non-existing problem."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN)

DAN DORELL, STUDIO DORELL: "Architecture is the materialization of a cultural moment in a specific place."  (Paris, 2016, EN)

MAX DUDLER: "In der Architektur muss man sich an verschiedenen Themen abarbeiten, wie etwa die Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte vor Ort und dessen Transformation in die Zukunft."  (Vienna, 2017, DE)


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DIETMAR EBERLE, BE BAUMSCHLAGER EBERLE: "Architecture is to find the most specific materialistic solution, with the most general value."  (Lustenau, 2014, EN)

GUILLAUME ECKLY, GENS: “Architecture is the art to build the daily environment.“ (Esch, 2022, EN)

PIERRE ESCOBAR, L’ATELIER: "Architecture is a tool that can be used in all kind of ways – to build for a totalitarian regime, to establish social connections, for express neoliberal ideas – so we have to understand that the profession comes with a responsibility." (Esch, 2022, EN)


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NIKLAS FANELSA, ATELIER FANELSA: "Architecture is everything but no buildings." (Esch, 2022, EN)

LUIS FERNÁNDEZ-GALIANO, ARQUITECTURA VIVA: "I tend to feel that architecture is the combination of the old Vitruvian qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas."  (Madrid, 2016, EN)

AMANDA FERBER, ARCHITECTURE HUNTER: “Architecture is the only art where you can go inside and interact.” (Sao Paulo, 2020, EN)

GÜNTHER FEUERSTEIN: "Architektur ist ein schöpferischer Vorgang."  (Innsbruck, 2013, DE)

PASCAL FLAMMER: "Architecture is, what you want architecture to be."  (Balsthal, 2014, EN)

YONA FRIEDMAN: "Architecture, buildings without people are ruins." (Vienna, 2018, EN)


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JEAN DE GASTINES, JDG ARCHITECTES: "L'architecture c'est avant tout une discipline qui permet d'ordonner les choses et de leur donner un sens."  (Paris, 2016, FR) 

KERSTEN GEERS, OFFICE KGDVS: "Architecture is itself — in the most simple ways."  (Brussels, 2014, EN) 

MATTEO GHIDONI, SALOTTOBUONO: "Architecture is a common, shared knowledge."  (Venice, 2014, EN) 

LINA GHOTMEH, LINA GHOTMEH - ARCHITECTURE: "Architecture is the capacity of asking: What is architecture?"  (Paris, 2016, EN) 

VOLKER GIENCKE, GIENCKE & COMPANY: "Für die ärmsten Menschen die beste Architektur bauen."  (Innsbruck, 2013, DE)

ORAL GOKTAS, SO?: “Architects are the victims of the future because everything they do is propaganda to what might be built or happen.“ (Esch, 2022, EN)


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PETER HAIMERL, PETER HAIMERL . ARCHITEKTUR: „Architektur ist die Umsetzung von virtuellen Gedanken in gebaute Räume.“ (Munich, 2018, DE)

SIMON HARTMANN, HHF ARCHITECTS: "Architecture means that you live out of architecture and not only for architecture."  (Basel, 2014, EN)

KELLY HENDRIKS, B-ILD: “Architecture is a process.” (Esch, 2022, EN)

ANNA HERINGER: “Architecture is a tool to improve lives.” (Laufen, 2020, EN)

HERMAN HERTZBERGER, AHH: “Architecture should make the world accessible to the people - not only in the physical also in the spiritual way.“ (Vienna, 2019, EN)

MOON HOON: "Architecture is not definitve — it can be anything."  (Innsbruck, 2015, EN) 


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SAM JACOB, FAT ARCHITECTURE & SAM JACOB STUDIO: "Architecture is the act of making the world that we live in."  (Venice, 2014, EN) 

MARKUS JATSCH, MARTHA SCHWARTZ PARTNERS: "Architecture is the production of space."  (Innsbruck, 2015, EN)

MARTIN JOSST, DMAA: “Architektur ist alles was mich umgibt – alles in dem ich bin.“ (Vienna, 2019, DE)


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KLAUS KADA, KADAWITTFELDARCHITEKTUR: "Architektur ist ein Zustand."  (Innsbruck, 2014, DE) 

ULRIKA KARLSSON, BRRUM & SERVO STOCKHOLM: "Architecture, for me, is a culture practice that engages the built environment."  (Innsbruck, 2015, EN)

JEFFREY KIPNIS: "It's a success!"  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN)

IDA KRIŽAJ LEKO: "Architecture is determined by gravity, that gives her a slowness and a right for mistakes, which is very important in our fast world." (Esch, 2022, EN)

MARCIO KOGAN
, STUDIO MK27: “Architecture can change the world, like any other profession.” (Sao Paulo, 2020, EN)

SOFIA KOUTSENKO, DROM: “Architecture organizes comprehensive environments in different scales.“ (Esch, 2022, EN)

LARS KRÜCKEBERG, GRAFT: "Architecture starts where buildings stop, it's where new possibilities are explored."  (Berlin, 2016, EN) 

DIKSHU KUKREJA, CP KUKREJA ARCHITECTS: “Architecture is all-encompassing - we literally sit in it.” (New Dehli, 2023, EN)

PERRY KULPER: "All pink objects in the world..."  (Innsbruck, 2015, EN) 

GERT KWEKKEBOOM, CIVIC ARCHITECTURE: "Architecture is materializing dreams in physical matter." (Esch, 2022, EN)


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LARS LERUP: "Architecture is enigmatic. It's a moving subject that changes all the time."  (Innsbruck, 2014, EN) 

BART LOOTSMA: "Architecture is to change what you expect from it."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 

GREG LYNN, FORM: "It's bringing into physical form the values of a culture."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 


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SIMONA MALVEZZI, KUEHN MALVEZZI: "Architecture is something you cannot avoid, sooner or later you will need it."  (Berlin, 2017, EN)

ELENA MANFERDINI, ATELIER MANFERDINI: “Architecture creates a background for any kind of human activity.“ (Los Angeles, 2018, EN)

VOLKWIN MARG, GMP: "Architektur ist fast die älteste aller Künste, abgesehen vom Trommeln und Singen."  (Berlin, 2017, DE) 

ARETI MARKOPOULOU, IAAC: “Architecture is a powerful mains for bringing changes in our society.” (Barcelona, 2021, EN)

MARIJA MARIC: "Architecture should be seen as an element in a broader real estate media complex." (Esch, 2022, EN)

STEFANO DE MARTINO, LORMAMARTI: "Architektur ist wie ambient music."  (Innsbruck, 2013, DE) 

JÜRGEN MAYER H., J.MAYER.H: "Architecture is a great adventure into the unknown, it is a speculation about the future of our built environment."  (Berlin, 2017, EN) 


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PHILIPPE NATHAN, 2001: "Architecture is a selection of mental disorders."  (Differdange, 2014, EN) 

ANH-LINH NGO, ARCH+: "Architecture is one of the most complex archives of cultural values."  (Berlin, 2016, EN)

LUCAS CAMPONOVO & PAUL GALINDO, NOMOS: “Architecture is researching and building spaces.” (Esch, 2022, EN) 

FRÉDÉRIC NOSBUSCH, n-lab: “By being social and historical, architecture is also political.” (Luxembourg, 2018, EN)


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CARINE OBERWEIS, COCA: “Architecture is a journey.” (Luxembourg, 2018, EN)


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GUSTAV PEICHL: „Architektur ist die Summe aus Form, Funktion und Material.“ (Vienna, 2018, DE)

PHILIP NORMAN PETERSON, HOLZER KOBLER: "Architecture is an obsession that I have had since the time I was six years old."  (Berlin, 2017, EN)

YONG PHILIP, CSYA: “Architecture is a roof over people – without a roof there is no activity, no communication or congregations.”  (Surabaya, 2019, EN)

FLORENCIA PITA, PITA & BLOOM: “Architecture is the design of things. It’s not confined to buildings or projects.“  (Los Angeles, 2018, EN)

MARTHIJN POOL, SPACE&MATTER: "Architecture can be a catalyst for change." (Esch, 2022, EN)

DAVID PORTER: "In the end we all know what architecture is, when we see it."  (Beijing, 2014, EN) 

EVA PRATS, FLORES & PRATS“Architecture is a network of connections.” (Vienna, 2021, EN)

WOLF PRIX, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: "Architecture is YES!"  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 


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ALI RAHIM, C-A-P: "Architecture is about elegance."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 

HANI RASHID, ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE: “Architecture is a symbiotic relationship between technology and art.” (Vienna, 2019, EN)

MANIT RASTOGI, MORPHOGENESIS: "Architecture is a passion, a hobby, a business and many more." (New Dehli, 2022, EN) 

SONALI RASTOGI, MORPHOGENESIS: “Architecture is a crystal ball to society.” (New Dehli, 2022, EN) 

CARLO RATTI, CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI: "Architecture is redesigning the interface between us and the outside environment."  (Venice, 2014, EN) 

THOMAS RAYNAUD, THOMAS RAYNAUD ARCHITECTES: "Architecture is probably the ambition to decompose literally the world into small pieces."  (Paris, 2016, EN) 

MARTIN REIN—CANO, TOPOTEK1: "Architecture has to do with the image we have of ourself and the social and psychological status of our society. "  (Innsbruck, 2015, EN) 

JACOB VAN RIJS, MVRDV: "Good architecture is not something you can put in words, but only in rooms, volumes and voids."  (Rotterdam, 2014, EN) 

ENRIC RUIZ GELI, CLOUD 9: "Architecture is about particles."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 

DAVID RUY, RUY+KLEIN: "Architecture is about individual responses to what is the world."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 


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YOKA SARA: “Architecture is a purpose for every human being for a place.” (Surabaya, 2019, ID & EN)

MATTHIAS SAUERBRUCH, SAUERBRUCH HUTTON: "Architecture forms the horizon of our existence."  (Berlin, 2017, EN) 

EDA SCHAUR: "Lebensräume für Menschen und mit Menschen."  (Innsbruck, 2013, DE)

KAROLIN SCHMIDBAUR, LINE OF: “Architecture is that part of the built environment that has the ability to influence our lives and the development of society.” (Vienna, 2018, EN)

CAROLE SCHMIT, POLARIS: "Architecture is about keeping suprise alive."  (Luxembourg, 2013, EN) 

PATRIK SCHUMACHER, ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS: "Das Ordnen von gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation durch Raumgestaltung."  (Innsbruck, 2013, DE) 

DAVID SERERO, SERERO ARCHITECTES: "Architecture is the sum of matter and information."  (Paris, 2016, EN) 

DAVID VAN SEVEREN, OFFICE KGDVS: "Architecture is a project and for that it needs to be made."  (Brussels, 2014, EN)

MICHAŁ SIKORSKI, TŁO: “Architecture is a collection of strategies that we elaborate to inhabit the outer.” (Esch, 2022, EN)

YU SING, AKANOMA STUDIO: “Architecture is everything, every space built by humans and not just buildings designed by architects.” (Padalarang, 2019, ID & EN)

ARUNJOT SINGH BHALLA, RSP: “Architecture is all-in composing.” (Bengaluru, 2021, EN)

THEODORE SPYROPOULOS, MINIMAFORMS: "Architecture is a way of asking questions."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 


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KJETIL THORSEN, SNØHETTA: "Architecture makes people aware of themselves in the world."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 

JAKOB TIGGES, MILA: "Architecture can create joy."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 

KLAUS TRAGBAR: "Architektur ist das Schaffen von Raum an einem konkreten Ort."  (Innsbruck, 2013, DE) 

PETER TRUMMER: "Architecture is a knowledge of forms."  (Innsbruck, 2013, EN) 

YOSHIHARU TSUKAMOTO, ATELIER BOW-WOW: "Our proposal for architecture is a new generation of old typologies."  (Venice, 2014, EN) 


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RADIM LOUDA & VALENTIN PIRET, CENTRAL | GAETAN BRUNET & CHLOÉ VALADIÉ, UR: “Architecture is a meeting point of different knowledges.” (Esch, 2022, EN)


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FRANCOIS VALENTINY, VALENTINY HVP ARCHITECTS: "Architektur ist eine wunderbare Art und Weise sich von den eigenen Problemen zu verabschiedenen und sich um die Probleme der anderen Menschen zu kümmern."  (Schengen, 2014, DE) 

ENZO VALERIO: “Architecture can mean a different thing in one project and then can lead to something totally different in another one. Sadly it’s quite vague - but it’s also happily.“  (Esch, 2022, EN)

LEO VAN BROECK, BOGDAN & VAN BROECK: "Architects have the tendency to regard it as a solution for problems."  (Brussels, 2014, EN) 

NATHALIE DE VRIES, MVRDV: "Good architecture is not something you can put in words, but only in rooms, volumes and voids."  (Rotterdam, 2014, EN) 


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TOBIAS WALLISSER, LAVA: "Architecture is a tool that allows to create new possibilities."  (Berlin, 2017, EN) 

THOMAS WILLEMEIT, GRAFT: "Architecture starts where buildings stop, it's where new possibilities are explored."  (Berlin, 2016, EN)

TOM WISCOMBE, TOM WISCOMBE ARCHITECTURE: "Architecture is one of the best ways of prompting people to think about how the world could be other than what it is. Other than the kind of everyday reality that we are constantly bombarded by."  (Los Angeles, 2018, EN)

STEFAN WÜLSER: “Architecture is a constant negotiation about human and spatial conditions.” (Esch, 2022, EN)


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MA YANSONG, MAD ARCHITECTS: "Architecture is seamless continued life."  (Beijing, 2015, EN)

LIAM YOUNG, TOMORROW'S THOUGHTS TODAY: “Architecture is the assemblage and design of stories in space.”  (Los Angeles, 2018, EN)

MICHAEL YOUNG, YOUNG & AYATA: "Architecture is the discipline that speculates on the real through the possibilities of our build constructions."  (Innsbruck, 2014, EN) 


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ANDREW ZAGOZAGO ARCHITECTURE: “Architecture is not design. It’s a sort of the armature into which you can place design objects.“ (Los Angeles, 2018, EN)

SEVERINE ZIMMER, LUCA: “L’Architecture, c’est le premier des arts.“ (Esch, 2022, FR)

NEMANJA ZIMONJIC, TEN STUDIO: "Architecture is a mirror of your time." (Esch, 2022, EN)

CINO ZUCCHI, CZA CINO ZUCCHI ARCHITETTI: "Architecture is like a pop song, we hear in the back of a bar — something which is the beloved backdrop of our life."  (Luxembourg, 2015, EN) 


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