Quotes about Architecture

“I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.”

“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.”

“I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.”

“The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”

“I'm so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that create hard connections and bridges between ideas that shouldn't be linked.”

“Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.”

“Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.”

“Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.”

“I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.”

“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.”

“Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.”

“All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.”

“An important work of architecture will create polemics.”

“Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.”

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

“A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.”

“The architecture in Barcelona is very unique, and I think it's something to truly spend some time getting to know all the cool places.”

“The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.”

“When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.”

“I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.”

“'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.”