Architecture Quotes - Page 5

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.

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.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

The future of architecture is culture.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Life is more important than architecture.