Magnus Larsson Quotes

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

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

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.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

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

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

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.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

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.

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