Architecture quotes

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.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

I see music as fluid architecture.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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

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.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.