Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
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 exclud...
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The a...
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at ...
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evel...
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
