Architecture Quotes

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture is politics.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.