Quotes About Architecture

My buildings are all on budget.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

My buildings are more famous than me.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

I'm scared of high buildings.

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

I like to study culture and buildings and it's something I do on tour.

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at J. Press. I have a blue blazer that I wear 80 percent of the time.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.

The power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstanees. Nature paints the best part of the picture, carves the best part of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree.

My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think.

He built an architecture of Bach, stone by exquisite stone, raising a music cathedral so vast