Quotes About Architecture

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

I try to create homes, not houses.

Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.