Quotes about Architecture

“The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.”

“I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.”

“I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.”

“Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.”

“Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.”

“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.”

“I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.”

“Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.”

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”

“Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.”

“Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.”

“I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.”

“Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.”

“Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.”

“Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?”

“When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.”

“Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.”

“'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.”

“When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.”

“We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.”

“I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.”