Architecture Quotes Page 2

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

To create, one must first question everything.

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.

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.

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

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect.

I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

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

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

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.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

All architecture is great architecture after sunset;

perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility.

Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing.

It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

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

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people.

What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

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

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.

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.