Famous Quotes: Architecture

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
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The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
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I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
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Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
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An important work of architecture will create polemics.
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I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
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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.
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After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
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