Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
I have an architecture degree; that’s what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
It’s not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he’d be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
There’s a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they’re very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.
I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don’t know why.
When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.
Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.
I’m inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it’s magical.
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
I’d like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.
Considering my specialization in architecture, I’m not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor’s ‘Batman: Death by Design.’
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.
