The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. Use this quote
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. Use this quote
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
Architecture is invention. Use this quote
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. Use this quote
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. Use this quote
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. Use this quote
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. Use this quote
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. Use this quote
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. Use this quote
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. Use this quote
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Use this quote
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Use this quote
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Use this quote
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. Use this quote
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. Use this quote
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. Use this quote
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. Use this quote
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. Use this quote
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. Use this quote
