Architecture Quotes

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

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.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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.

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.

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

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.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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.