When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.
I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.
As a child I wanted to become an architect.
Architecture theory is very interesting.
I'm very interested in architecture.
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.
From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
I love architecture.
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
Form follows function straight to hell.
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
