Paul Goldberger Quotes

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.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

Building design isn't trendy.

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.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

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

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Architecture is not about form

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

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.

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.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.