They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
[passing a Stonehenge-like structure] Manfred: Modern architecture. It'll never last.
[first lines] Narrator: [title card] In 1941 China and Japan had been in a state of undeclared war for four years. A Japanese army of occupation was in control of much of the countryside and many towns and cities. In Shanghai thousands of Westerners,...
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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.
