Quotes About Architecture

The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

It's incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Il Foro, secondo Vitruvio, aveva forma di parallelogramma, con una piazza nel mezzo, girata da un portico a colonne; secondo il Bolano era di pianta quadrata, a due piani; al

Non occorre dunque spiegare perchè il barocco trionfa in queste moderne architetture: un barocco che sotto l'influenza dello spagnolismo unito all'enfasi meridionale, gonfia le gote dei suoi mascheroni, moltiplica le cariatidi ed i puttini, distende ed allaccia i più pesanti festoni, aduna ed ammonticchia i più vistosi motivi decorativi. Barocche

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Does a 'Stair-way' very much or does it depend upon the number pf steps and risers:

The Cathedral of Commerce

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

I want to live the rest of my house in a house built exactly like a rook.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.