“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”
Buildings shape how we live, work, and think. These quotes from architects, designers, and urban thinkers explore the relationship between structure and human experience — how the spaces we create end up creating us in return.
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
“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.”
“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
“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.”
“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”
“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.”
“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”
“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”
“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.”
“I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.”