Magnus Larsson Quotes

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

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.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

Building design isn't trendy.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.