Christopher Wren Quotes

I propose to build for eternity.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

I love architecture.

Architecture is invention.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Buildings are forms of performances.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.