Quotes on Architecture And Design

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

I call architecture frozen music.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.