Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy
If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.
I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.
Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.
It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes.
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.
If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.
The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.