Winston Churchill Quotes

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

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