#architecture

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#anything #architecture #both #course #ecstatic

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#based #cultures #develop #dominant #expect

The cosmetic is cosmic. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#junkspace #architecture

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#buildings #means #own #speak #their

An important work of architecture will create polemics. ↗

— Richard Meier

#create #important #important work #polemics #will

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. ↗

— Richard Meier

#building #century #city #frozen #half

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

— Julia Morgan

#art #buildings #speak #themselves #visual

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. ↗

— Julia Morgan

#after #buildings #gone #i #legacy

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. ↗

— Enid Nemy

#building #corner #could #dead #designed

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#built #house #navigation #never #rules