Quotes about Architecture

“To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.”

“In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.”

“I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.”

“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.”

“What people want, above all, is order.”

“I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.”

“I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.”

“Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.”

“All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.”

“Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.”

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

“Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”

“I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.”

“There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.”

“The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities.”

“Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.”

“When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.”

“I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.”

“With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to find what the architecture is of the sound.”

“Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.”

“What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.”