Residential Architecture Quotes

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

When you design someone's house, it's actually painful. I never say, "This house will be a total reflection of you and any defects in it will make you look defective." But people do expect their homes to be reflections of themselves. So what I say is, "Just pretend this is your eighth home. By then you won't care."

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.

The House shewes the owner.

People think that I live in a space pod, but it's pretty mid-century modern.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see what he'd do.

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

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.

Tower Bridge would make a cool house. I like the idea of living over the river.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

I think I've learned that if you have a house, you end up living in the kitchen, so if you have one big kitchen and then enough bedrooms for your family, that's about all you need for a home.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.