Architecture Quotes - Page 12

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Minimal art went nowhere.

Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

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

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone thinks architecture has to be subservient to sustainability, but what if we thought in the other direction, like, what can sustainability do to make architecture more exciting?