There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.

Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I call architecture frozen music.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I am but an architectural composer.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

For many years I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose it seems to me must be the improvement of mankind.

In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and above all timesaving to make them identical.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

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

Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.

Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.