Architecture Quotes

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us.

Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

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

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.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.