Quotes About Architecture

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.

Nachos, like a California ranch-style home, should never be built more than two layers high.

Light is architectural. It is sculptural.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

Lucknow University looks amazing all lit up during night time.

There's an amazing movie called 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'

Madrid and London are great.

Rebuilt in Victorian times, it retained the modesty of its medieval origins. Small and neat, its spire indicated the direction of heaven without trying to pierce a hole in it.

I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so long that straightening them out was like six bouts with an octopus.