Architect Quotes - Page 4

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.