Quotes About Architecture

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.