I don’t separate architecture, design, or culture. What’s more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
I could have been an architect, but I don’t think I’d have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through – if it is labored, it fails.
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there’s no reason for it to be. I don’t want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
I see music as fluid architecture.
Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
Architecture is a technology. And it’s involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture – including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I’ll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I’ll exclaim, ‘This is architecture.’
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don’t work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
My dad just left high school in ‘69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.
