Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.
Home is where you hang your hangover.
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
Home is where you hang your head.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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