Architecture Quotes
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I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
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Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
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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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Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
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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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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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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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There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
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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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Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
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I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
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Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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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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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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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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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
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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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I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
