Architectural Balance Quotes

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.