Architecture Quotes

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

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.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.

You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.