Alain Robert Quotes

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

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

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

I take a keen interest in the architecture of places when I travel.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.