Quotes: Architecture

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

What is being called the UN ‘gender architecture’ is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.