Architecture Quotes
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.
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Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
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In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.
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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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Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
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We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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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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The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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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'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
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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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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
