Architecture Quotes

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.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

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

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.

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.

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.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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.