A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
