It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
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.
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
Architecture aims at Eternity.
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
Architecture is politics.
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
I think architecture has to be a gift.
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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