Steven Holl Quotes

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

I love architecture.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

Building design isn't trendy.

The future of architecture is culture.

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

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Architecture is invention.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.