“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
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“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
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“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
“I call architecture frozen music.”
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.”
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
“Architecture in general is frozen music.”
“Architecture is politics.”
“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”
“We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.”
“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”
“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
“My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.”
“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”
“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
“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.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”