Quotes About Architecture

Golden Gate Bridge in Marin

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

studied its architecture and intricate decoration

beginning it was a well-planned pyramid

Savannah gray bricks

As Edward Glaeser put it, 'Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers.