Quotes About Architecture

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.

A city of homes should not be built as a business center.

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

Horse Guards is my favourite building in London.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

A house is a machine for living in.

What does a house want to be?

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

I never built houses, only apartments.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

I really love houses.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

I like to build houses.

I love houses. I'm not sure why.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.

The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through open competition.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

When you think about the worst places humans come into contact with, they are often our health environments.

The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would—and did—detest.

and the Creole houses were invisible behind the rain.