Building Design Quotes

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Architecture is invention.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing.

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

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.