Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
Architecture is crystallized music.
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
