Freeman Dyson Quotes

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

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.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

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

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

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

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Buildings are forms of performances.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

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 am involved in the architecture of space.

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.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.