Zitat des Tages über Die Architektur / Architecture:
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
I see music as fluid architecture.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Architecture is politics.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
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've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
