Architecture Quotes

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

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

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

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.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.