Architecture Quotes
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
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The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.
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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
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What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
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We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
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I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
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I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.
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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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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
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Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
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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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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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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
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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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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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The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic.
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I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.
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Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
