“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
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.
“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
“People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.”
“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”
“I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.”
“If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.”
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
“I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.”
“Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.”
“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.”
“Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.”
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
“I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.”
“Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.”
“Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.”
“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”