Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide ou...
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
Less is more.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aim...
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowle...
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.