Bernard Tschumi Quotes

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

I love architecture.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I am but an architectural composer.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.