Pastoral Resources

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

I call architecture frozen music.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

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

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

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

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.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

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 building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.