Quotes about Architecture

“The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.”

“I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.”

“If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.”

“Architecture is invention.”

“I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.”

“Architecture aims at Eternity.”

“I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.”

“With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.”

“Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.”

“Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.”

“What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.”

“There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.”

“My first venture to Qatar was with WWE. It was an incredible tour and we stayed at a luxurious hotel. I ventured out by myself and wandered down to a shopping center and there was beautiful architecture everywhere.”

“Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.”

“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.”

“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.”

“You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.”

“I don't know if I'll go back into medicine. As much as I love it and went to school for it, my passion has always been in real estate, development, interior design and architecture.”

“At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.”

“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”

“A house is a machine for living in.”