Architecture Quotes
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When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
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Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
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I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
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As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
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Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.
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There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.
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Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.
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I just love architecture, and I just love the idea of being someone who sees the world differently and doing everything you can do in order to actualize that dream. And really sticking to your guns when everyone else is telling you that you're crazy.
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Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
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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.
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The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
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Architecture is the work of nations.
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The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
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I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.
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I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
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The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.
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At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space, it's also to work with the time, to work with the people who are involved with the place. It's also dealing with history. It takes all this into account. Other works can be placed in different environments, but they always follow a rule. This is usually not the case for work in situ, because even if they are transported, they remain there forever or they are destroyed.
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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
