Architecture Quotes

I think there has only ever been one member of the Federal Parliament from either side found to have been corrupt in the whole history of Australia. I don't think we should create the architecture to solve a problem which barely exists.

Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

I am critical of the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pulling out of everything - the joint approach to the refugee issue, for example. He cannot disparage his colleagues in the EU either - that's not how we treat each other. We require solidarity: in refugee policies, just as in the financial architecture of the structural funds from which countries like Hungary have strongly profited from for years.

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.

Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.