Architecture Quotes
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
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I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
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It is the queen of architecture. Other buildings may be as famous, but no other is so consistently admired for a beauty that is seen as both feminine and regal. Many people feel that to class Taj Mahal as architecture is a mistake: it is both too personal and too magnificent.
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I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
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Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
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Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
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Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
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The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
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I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
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I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
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Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.
