Architecture Quotes

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.