Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
I don’t want to do architecture that’s dry and dull.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
The building’s identity resided in the ornament.
Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend… they can all go drifting by unseen if you’re not careful.
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.
Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment – whether it’s a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into ‘A Beautiful Mind’ or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates – has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
I’m not an interior decorator; I’m a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you’ve got big trouble.
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
Since I am a Japanese man who’s been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they’re based on Western methods and materials.
Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management… I was horrible at all that.
Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
One summer, when I was on break from architecture school in Tijuana, my aunt gave me a summer job cleaning up and peeling garlic, and I got to see her in her element. She was so passionate and such a good teacher, I decided to quit architecture school and go to culinary school in Los Angeles.
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject – architecture – that I had already faced in building some small houses.
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It’s the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it’s the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
I came to London constantly, working with Ninja Theory on ‘DmC Devil May Cry,’ and I kind of fell in love with this amazing architecture, where you have these buildings that have clearly been around a long time, and they have this amazing gothic look, and then on the first floor, it’s a McDonald’s!
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
Less is more.
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn’t impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
I don’t think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
On inspection, Gaudi’s architecture isn’t whimsical at all.
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.
I have always been fascinated by Indian history and architecture.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that’s the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.
As a mature and responsible nation, one of India’s foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
You don’t need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.
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.
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
I have a huge love for architecture.
Architecture is the beginning of something because it’s – if you’re not involved in first principles, if you’re not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it’s cake decoration.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
When I’m in London, Claridge’s is a great favourite. I’m a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
The artistic part of us all – I think that the easiest way to appreciate this – is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for ‘Homeland,’ and I just found myself just wandering around London. There’s nothing like it – the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture – there really is nothing like it.
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
