Architecture And Design Quotes

I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

I call architecture frozen music.

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Design is where science and art break even.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in life. And then I would start to look at architectural magazines and I eventually went to the school of architecture too, but one of the things I learned very early is that an architect should be able to design anything from a spoon to the city.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.