Architecture Quotes

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

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.

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.

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.