Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.
If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
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.
Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.
Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.
There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
Architecture is not about form
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.
The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.
The further from one another, the nearer one can be.
