Bernard Tschumi Quotes

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

What does a house want to be?

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

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

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

Home is here in London and always has been.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

I love traveling and touring, but I have to bring the little things that make me feel at home.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.