Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. Use this quote
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. Use this quote
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. Use this quote
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. Use this quote
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. Use this quote
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Use this quote
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. Use this quote
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. Use this quote
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. Use this quote
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. Use this quote
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. Use this quote
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Use this quote
All real education is the architecture of the soul. Use this quote
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. Use this quote
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. Use this quote
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. Use this quote
The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. Use this quote
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. Use this quote
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. Use this quote
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. Use this quote
