Quotes about Architecture

“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”

“I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.”

“I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?”

“In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.”

“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.”

“I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.”

“I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.”

“I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.”

“Architecture is politics.”

“I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.”

“The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.”

“For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.”

“When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.”

“The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.”

“I'm a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens. I moved from London to Hertfordshire, so I could get a garden.”

“I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.”

“When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.”

“The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force.”

“You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.”

“I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines.”

“Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.”