Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Form follows function.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.