Alexandre de Betak Quotes

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

Lighting is everything. It creates mood and has an emotional effect on you.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

The dark is light enough.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Light is architectural. It is sculptural.

People don't realize that lighting can change the whole look of a place and the feel.

Lighting is key for me for every project.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

A room is not a room without natural light.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.