Pastoral Resources

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

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

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.