Architecture Quotes

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

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.

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.

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.

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.