I’m so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that create hard connections and bridges between ideas that shouldn’t be linked.
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn’t have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
There’s nothing Dutch about my architecture.
I like to make a tour round the pitch before games to look at the architecture, the colours in the stadium, the sky, to feel the atmosphere growing.
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
I’m really into architecture, I’m a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I’m a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone.
I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it’s always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
Britain loves a bargain, but you don’t get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.
I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it’s fantastic.
After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
You might say that when you step inside, you’re entering a honorific space, but that’s something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it’s highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
The architecture in Barcelona is very unique, and I think it’s something to truly spend some time getting to know all the cool places.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
