Quotes About Architecture

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Venice is eternity itself.

The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice.

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

Venice is unlike any other city simply because you travel primarily by boat. Time warps, and I love the feeling of it slowing down.

My first venture to Qatar was with WWE. It was an incredible tour and we stayed at a luxurious hotel. I ventured out by myself and wandered down to a shopping center and there was beautiful architecture everywhere.

I've had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican's dome. I also got ideas from medieval castles - I've mixed medieval castles with the Romanesque style.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

Rockefeller had had his own private station built fifty feet below the Waldorf-Astoria to save him traveling the eight blocks to Grand Central

Grand Central Station

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

the floor and cubbyholes for mail against the wall. Upstairs the rooms were airy, with high ceilings and walls

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.