Architecture Quotes

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

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.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

What people want, above all, is order.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.