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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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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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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Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
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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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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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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
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We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
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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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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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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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Art will not only continue but will realise itself more and more. By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
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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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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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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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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
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Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.
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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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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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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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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.
