James Polshek Quotes

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

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.

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.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

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.

I love architecture.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

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.

Building design isn't trendy.

Architecture is invention.

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.

The future of architecture is culture.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Buildings are forms of performances.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.