Architecture Quotes

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

I see music as fluid architecture.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

Architecture aims at Eternity

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

The room is the beginning of architecture.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

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.

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

For me, architecture is a social act.

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.