Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.

In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.