3 December 2020 Luis Barragan My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
3 December 2020 Goldwin Smith Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it’s difficult to quantify the attachment.
3 December 2020 Oscar Niemeyer I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
3 December 2020 Charlie Rose I would’ve been intrigued by being a film director. I would’ve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
3 December 2020 Alain Robert In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
3 December 2020 Marcus V. Pollio Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings.
3 December 2020 Tony Hale What’s fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it’s crap-looking – apart from the White House, which is beautiful.
3 December 2020 Art Garfunkel I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out.
3 December 2020 T. E. Lawrence All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
3 December 2020 Martha Graham To me, a building – if it’s beautiful – is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
3 December 2020 Jay Chiat The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
3 December 2020 John Portman Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
3 December 2020 Helmut Jahn The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
3 December 2020 Harry Seidler After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
3 December 2020 Harry Seidler The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
3 December 2020 Michael Tilson Thomas But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
