Quotes About Architecture

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land?

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.