Michael Graves Quotes

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

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.

Building design isn't trendy.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Architecture is always political.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

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

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

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.