Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.

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

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

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.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

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

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

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why do you have to change? Why don't you just accept that this is how you are? Why do you have to grow from an experience?

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.