Quotes About Architecture

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

The modern human has mastered the art of building toxic homes and cities.