Ryan Tedder Quotes

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

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

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

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.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be.