Architectural Elements Quotes

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.

The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that. I might, at some point, take two years off to study interior decoration.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

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.

Every home, office, club, yacht, landscape, or piece of furniture I may design will be different from the other. What will be consistent, however, is my own personal sense of style through it all.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

I have been constantly working on the interiors of my homes in Delhi, Goa, Dubai, Mumbai, and the Red Chillies Building. I had been designing homes, too. Having a background in art, graphic design, and charcoal helped me in my work immensely.

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.