Architecture Quotes

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.