The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it’s a true story.
Architecture is a code. It’s a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I’ve worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn’t operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was – and is – a builder in my family.
There’s something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don’t get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I’d most like to live, I would always choose London.
Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management… I was horrible at all that.
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
I’m a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.
You don’t need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
What’s fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it’s crap-looking – apart from the White House, which is beautiful.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It’s about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
Lucknow’s architecture is a part of life in the city.
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement – publicly sponsored housing.
We’re always taught that we’re building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
