Architectural Relevance Quotes

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings.

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

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.