Architect Quotes

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.
When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Copiers do not collaborate.
In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.
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