There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
Space is the breath of art.
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
For me, architecture is a social act.
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building. . . A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.
Life is more important than architecture.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.