Architect quotes
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. ➡
— Alvar Aalto purposeWhen 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. ➡
— Tadao Ando natureLife deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. ➡
— Luis Barragan beautyThe home should be the treasure chest of living. ➡
— Le Corbusier livingThere are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. ➡
— Antoni Gaudi natureArchitecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. ➡
— Frank Gehry timeI don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. ➡
— Zaha Hadid youAnd when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. ➡
— Arne Jacobsen lightA great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. ➡
— Louis Kahn witThe acceptance of certain realities doesnt preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. ➡
— Rem Koolhaas acceptanceLife it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, its about experience, its about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ➡
— Daniel Libeskind artDoes it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. ➡
— Adolf Loos artBut I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. ➡
— Thom Mayne changeRome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. ➡
— Richard Meier timeI dont have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the reasons behind the forms. That is very rewarding. If you extend a profession like that to the entire history, it allows you to travel through time. ➡
— Rafael Moneo warEach new situation requires a new architecture. ➡
— Jean Nouvel I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I cant do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer. ➡
— Cesar Pelli cultureArchitecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people dont read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years. ➡
— Renzo Piano peopleThe only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. ➡
— Richard Rogers warAll I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way. ➡
— Albert Speer dieImplicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. ➡
— Louis Sullivan freedomThere is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. ➡
— Kenzo Tange art