European Architecture Quotes

My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

Well, I love Europe and I love Europeans; when I look at my own personal travel, for most of my life, 80 percent of it has been to European countries. And that was long before I ever considered becoming an ambassador or was offered the opportunity, because I love everything about Europe. I like the culture. I like the food. I like the charm.

When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

The audiences are really great. I really love it over there. I love Europe, period. Oh my God, all the architecture and all the history and just to the way people think and live is so different.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.