“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
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.”
“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
“Architecture is invention.”
“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”
“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.”
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”
“I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.”
“Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.”
“Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.”
“A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.”
“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”
“I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.”
“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
“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.”