Bernard Arnault Quotes

I think architecture has to be a gift.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

The future of architecture is culture.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

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

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate."

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

Architecture is crystallized music.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.