Architecture Quotes

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

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

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.