architecture Quotes

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style, and that’s what my work is about.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.