Architecture Quotes

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

I am but an architectural composer.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

I call architecture frozen music.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.