Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings… it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there’s a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don’t read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It’s very tough.
Architecture is definitely a political act.
The ultimate goal of the architect…is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture… should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
Architecture is always political.
Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.
I’ve always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
Blockchain technology isn’t just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It’s a means of making different life forms possible.
Architecture aims at Eternity.
I don’t build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It’s basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
