Architecture Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

What people want, above all, is order.

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.