Architecture Quotes - Page 2

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Space is the breath of art.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.