Architecture Quotes

On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

A building is a string of events belonging together.

Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.

Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

An arch never sleeps.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.

The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.

In speculative buildings which is most of our business there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence the top and the elevator cab.

A house is a machine for living.

Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

Form ever follows function.

Old houses mended Cost little less than new before they're ended.

Architecture is frozen music.

Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

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.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

I call architecture frozen music.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.