Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as...

Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.

Nomadom je postao onda kada je o omjeru ljepote počeo razmišljati kao o ljubavnom odnosu između dvaju dijelova u kojem se suprotnosti privlače upravo magičnom snagom, a isti omjer jednako gospodari i arhitekturom i prirodom.

The word house didn’t begin to do justice for the white and gray structure in front of me. I actually had to tilt my head back to see all the way up to the roof.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

The first treatise on the interior of the body, which is to say, the treatise that gave the body an interior , written by Henri De Mondeville in the fourteenth century, argues that the body...

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture.

…but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That there is a true Science in the World called Scientia Umbrarum which, as...

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

We’re looking mainly at renovating Webster and Main streets while taking advantage of the historic architecture.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. (1939)

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

We’re focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name ‘icon’ and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they’re icons, people don’t look...

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two...

Right away, you felt the architecture of his music was very strong, so whatever you were going to put on top adornments or improvising you really had to know the material.

Howard, Wright et Le Corbusier se sont servit de leurs cités idéales pour dépeindre un monde où leurs objectifs économiques et sociaux étaient déjà atteints. Chacun d’eux voulait montrer que les projets de ville qu’il...

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the...

In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to attempt such a harmony in the garden of the Institute would have defeated...

Your new kitchen should look like it was “born there.” That doesn’t mean it has to be the exact same style as the house. (You can put a modern kitchen into a Victorian, for example.)...

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.

Even a brick wants to be something.A brick wants to be something.It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick… wants to be something more than it is.It wants to be something better than it is.

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show...

Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of cheap-ass despair? It’s not? Whew.

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we’ve both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing—one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis,...

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural...

He tried to derive a Southwestern influence, … That was Bennie’s style of architecture.

Even if the chance of impacting global change is slight and we don’t know our chances of success, our ethical obligation is not simply to advance architecture, but to find ways to advance society and...

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and...

Good ideas come from everywhere. It’s more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

I am opposed to Naperville. It’s all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class America.

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or...

[Even more critical to Oracle’s future, however, was Phillips’s announcement of Oracle Fusion Architecture (OFA), the company’s massive SOA, combining the flexibility of model-driven process design and service- and event-enabled applications with ease of integration...

The sides of buildings should be like the tops of lakes. I’d fish through your window hoping to catch a smile.

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Je suis un b tisseur, je suis un homme de chantier, bien plus qu’un théoricien, et c’est peut-être la raison pour laquelle je suis convaincu qu’il n’y a que l’oeuvre effectivement construite qui puisse satisfaire...

We want to … create a building that reflects the architecture of the city and the hospital’s faith-based heritage.

Modernism’, as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the...

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry...

Architecture is the design of space, both interior and exterior. So it’s much more closely related to dance than it is to painting or sculpture.

It was built when public architecture mattered, … Now, it would be called wasteful spending.

The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.