L’architecture éveille en l’homme des états d’ me.. La t che des architectes est de préciser ces états d’ mes.

Sunset’s the best time to take a stroll down Mouffetard, the ancient Via Mons Cetardus. The buildings along it are only two or three stories high. Many are crowned with conical dovecotes. Nowhere in Paris...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of our patriarchal world, along with the social identities and injustices that those boundaries...

house progressive new plays in a setting inspired by the grand architecture and design of traditional 19th Century venues.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the animate and inanimate and back again. For this reason it is always incomplete,...

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

The good thing about standards is, almost anybody we buy has a similar architecture to what we’re marching toward.

I crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it in the garbage. Then I quickly snatched it out, because hell, I’d just tossed out a Frank Gehry knockoff. What you call trash, I call...

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone...

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

I confront the city with my body; my legs measure the length of the arcade and the width of the square; my gaze unconsciously projects my body onto the facade of the cathedral, where it...

…In Jack Nasar’s research on American’s taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.

Martin explains that working with architects in the Arup SoundLab has led to improved collaborations: ‘We can relate to architects much better. If we are brought on board at the ideal time, which is if...

We must change life,’ the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of...

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today’s blind architecture – a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected by our surroundings even when they are made of vinyl and...

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Light must always win.

The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and...

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it...

There is a huge opportunity with Monterey and Merced. The Intel architecture has the potential to displace the proprietary, RISC, and mainframe architectures that have been kings for so long.

The circus tent is not architecture.

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]

That’s how they’re different.

Our stuff looks tinny compared to it.” At a time when commercial values are systematically corrupting the museum – one of civilized society’s most elevating experiences – the example of Kahn, among the most courageous...

History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on his tunic and his flat cap. But in the end the...

A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like language. Compared to the fluidity of words, a building is atrociously...

A man doesn’t borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn’t borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

The future line of products based on this architecture will generate more revenues than our previous lines of products. We have 5,800-plus customers, and we believe it will be easy to get adoption.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern the origin, cause, and nature of subterranean things; for then he will be...

It is my trade,” he said. “I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black...

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and...

Artists and artisans both demonstrate with perfect clarity that a person is least able to appropriate for himself those things which are most peculiarly his. His works leave him as birds do the best in...

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation’s effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius…

Martin’s distinction between the approach to acoustics characterized by the Sabine formula and his own approach, using the Arup SoundLab, recalls the sociologist Max Weber’s distinction between the ethics of the scientist and those of...

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired…Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Architecture aims at Eternity

We depend on computers when we ourselves haven’t mastered the principles behind what we are asking computers to design. Glenn Murcutt – A Singular Architectural Practice page 16