There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you’ll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it’s really difficult.
I’m a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens. I moved from London to Hertfordshire, so I could get a garden.
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art – or at least people call it that.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
Architecture is politics.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.
As a woman, I’m expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don’t design nice buildings – I don’t like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
There’s a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it’s like architecture or mathematics.
