Architecture Quotes

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

A house is a machine for living in.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

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.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.