Architecture Quotes - Page 14

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

Architecture is politics.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.