Architecture Quotes - Page 4

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.

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.

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

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.

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.