Architecture Quotes - Page 8

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

When does a building actually become a built?

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.