Hussein Chalayan Quotes

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

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.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

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.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

I am but an architectural composer.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

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

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.