Architecture Quotes - Page 7

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

For me, architecture is a social act.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.