Architect Quotes - Page 5

But what if we are dealing with fools?

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

I am but an architectural composer.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

Buildings should be good neighbours.

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

Dressmaking is the architecture of movement

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

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.