Architect Quotes

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
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