“Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.”
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“People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.”
“I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.”
“My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.”
“We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.”
“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”
“Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.”
“Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.”
“In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.”
“Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.”
“It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.”
“I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.”
“Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.”
“Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.”
“I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.”
“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”
“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.”
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”
“And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.”
“I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.”
“If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.”
“In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.”
“If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.”
“The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.”