Architecture

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.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.