Quotes About Architecture

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And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

The first was that the creative architects knew how to play.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.