If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. Peter Zumthor Architecture
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. Eric Whitacre Architecture
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. Alex Winter Architecture
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. Michael Tilson Thomas Architecture
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. Stephen Gardiner Architecture
I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?' Thom Mayne Architecture
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Victor Hugo Architecture
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. Donald Barthelme Architecture
When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic. Hugh Hardy Architecture
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. Anouska Hempel Architecture
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Louis Kahn Architecture
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. Rem Koolhaas Architecture
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. Peter Zumthor Architecture
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architecture
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. Charlotte Bunch Architecture
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. Marco Brambilla Architecture
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. Hussein Chalayan Architecture