Architecture Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.