“For me, each project is cultural. Inhabiting an architectural space, simply living in it, is a cultural act. ”
Jean Nouvel
“Gaudí said his teacher was the tree in front of him; I also think that we can never make an architecture better than that of a tree ”
Toyo Ito
“The purpose of a house is to provide a good and comfortable life, and it would be an error to value an exclusively decorative result too much. I never looked for beauty, but poetry. ”
Lina Bo Bardi
“A building has two lives. The one that imagines its creator and the life he has. And they are not always equal. ”
REM KOOLAS
“Man is in the center of architecture. Architecture is very archaic, but the problem is that you have to find a contemporary form to be credible because you cannot repeat old styles and models. ”
Jacques Herzog
“Architecture is only considered complete with the intervention of the human being that experiences it. In other words, the architectural space only comes alive in correspondence with the human presence that perceives it ”.
Tadao Ando
“The way you build buildings makes people wonder about how you have achieved it. Before people go to Iglesias and cathedrals to pray, but they also marveled at having a special relationship with the building. ”
Zaha Hadid
«Routine and common places have caused man to forget the natural beauty of» moving in space, «of his conscious movement, those little gestures.»
Lina Bo Bardi
“The relationship between the architect and nature is love-as. Sustainability consists of building thinking about the future, not only taking into account the physical resistance of the building, but also thinking about its stylistic resistance, the uses of the future and the resistance of the planet itself and its energy resources ”
Renzo piano