Emotional Architecture Quotes

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.