“Architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings actually fit with the way we want to live our lives: the process of manifesting our society into our physical world. – Bjarke Ingels in AD Interviews
“Architecture is merciless: it is what it is, it works or doesn’t, and you can clearly see the difference.” – Jacques Herzog in a lecture at Columbia University
“Architecture is full of romantics who think that even relatively small changes to the built environment create the aspiration for a better society.” – Mark Wigley in Surface Magazine
14.“建筑活动本应服务于大众,然而现实发展已与初衷渐行渐远。”—— Alexandra Lange
“Architecture is for us, the public, and it is going to get scuffed.” – Alexandra Lange in Design Observer
15.“进行建筑活动是国家职能之所在。”—— 约翰·拉斯金 (John Ruskin)
“Architecture is the work of nations…” John Ruskin in Stones of Venice
“Architecture is not a question of the purely theoretical if you’re interested in building buildings. It’s the art of what is possible.” – Paul Rudolph in Chicago Architects Oral History Project
20.“建筑学就是几何学。”——阿尔瓦罗·西扎
“Architecture is geometry.” – Álvaro Siza in Imaginar a Evidência (Imagining Evidence)
“Architecture is not just one thing. It is not just an art. … It has to deal with the real situation; it has to do something good for the society.” – Xiaodu Liu in “What Can Architecture Do? An Interview with Xiaodu Liu” on ArchDaily
23.“建筑设计不单指场地上的建筑物:它更关乎于场地自身的重塑”—— Sean Lally
“Architecture is much more than the building of an object on a site: it is a reinvention of the site itself.” – Sean Lally in The Air From Other Planets
“Architecture is a language: new designs should abide by grammatical rules to avoid dissonance with existing structures.” – Prince Charles in The Architectural Review
“Architecture is a very complex effort everywhere. It’s very rare that all the forces that need to coincide to actually make a project proceed are happening at the same time.” – Rem Koolhaas in Co.Design
28.“通过成为工艺的一种表达方式,建筑旨在传承为人们提供庇护和安全这一简单诉求。”——Jay A. Pritzker 源自1985 年普利兹克颁奖演说
“Architecture is intended to transcend the simple need for shelter and security by becoming an expression of artistry.” – Jay A. Pritzker in his 1985 Pritzker Ceremony Speech
“Architecture is the only art that you can’t help but feel. You can avoid paintings, you can avoid music, and you can even avoid history. But good luck getting away from architecture.” – Philippe Daverio in Humans of New York
“Architecture is characterised by endurance and longevity: a long education, long training, long hours and long lives.” – Catherine Slessor in The Architectural Review
32.“建筑学是对立事物的中和。”—— Juhani Pallasmaa
“Architecture is a muddle of irreconcilable things.” – Juhani Pallasmaa in The Architectural Review
“Architecture is becoming less about a single walled-off phallus on the horizon, and more about parks and public spaces which engage with the city.” – Alissa Walker in Gizmodo
36.“通常来说,建筑的设计过程胜于建筑的建造过程。”—— Sam Jaco
“Architecture is most often a victory over the process of creating architecture.” – Sam Jacob in Log
“Architecture is capable of mounting a profound critique of the status quo.” – Reinhold Martin in Places
38.“建筑是如此醒目且庞大的物体,它的存在必然会影响到所有人。”—— Gautam Bhatia
“Architecture is such a conspicuous immensely physical object in space its presence is bound to influence everyone.” – Gautam Bhatia in India International Centre Quarterly
39.“建筑学不仅仅是关于建造,它更多的是一种提高人们生活质量的手段。”——Diébédo Francis Kéré
“Architecture is not just about building. It’s a means of improving people’s quality of life.” – Diébédo Francis Kéré in Washington Post
“Architecture is really difficult. I realized that only very recently. It’s like music. You can enjoy it but — to know it — it’s a different story.” – Diana Agrest in nprEd
42. 建筑有能力吸收任何事物,所以也会消融在一切之中。—— Ole Bouman,《Volume》杂志
“Architecture is capable of absorbing anything, and hence tends to dissolve into everything.” – Ole Bouman in Volume
43. 建筑不只是科技和美学的结合物,更是一种展现生活方式的框架结构 – 而且,如果幸运的话,展现的是一种明智的生活方式。—— Bernard Rudofsky
“Architecture is not just a matter of technology and aesthetics but the frame for a way of life – and, with luck, an intelligent way of life.” – Bernard Rudofsky
“Architecture is a discipline where you can have multivalent interests. You could be a philosopher, a geographer, a scientist, an artist, an engineer; you can be poetic about it.” – Toshiko Mori in Metropolis
45. 建筑是为了更远大更高的目标。—— Stanley Tigerman,《新闻周刊》
“Architecture is supposed to be about a higher purpose.” – Stanley Tigerman in Newsweek
46. 建筑是最大众广泛的艺术,而大众又是最严苛的评论家。—— Eric Parry,《卫报》
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, and the public are severe critics.” – Eric Parry in The Guardian
47.建筑是一个形式制造者,问题解决者,也是环境创造者,而国际博览会正是它的实验室。——Ada Louise Huxtable,《纽约时报》
“Architecture is a formmaker, problem‐solver and environment‐creator, and the international exposition is its laboratory.” – Ada Louise Huxtable in New York Times
“Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstanding and provide a beautiful context for life’s drama.” – Frank Gehry in his 1989 Pritzker Prize Ceremony Speech
50.建筑不是一件私有事物;即使是一幢房子也必须为全家人以及亲朋好友使用,而更多的建筑物都是为所有人,为各界人士所使用。如果这幢建筑物需要满足大众需求,那么建筑师必须要找到一些所有人能共同理解和经历的基础。——John Portman,“建筑师作为发展商(The Architect as Developer)”
“Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.” – John Portman in “The Architect as Developer”
51.建筑是一门社会性艺术。作为一门社会性艺术,我们有社会责任确保我们所呈现出的建筑设计不仅能满足功用、创造舒适的空间,更需要能够提供精神的愉悦。—— Samuel Mockbee
“Architecture is a social art. And as a social art, it is our social responsibility to make sure that we are delivering architecture that meets not only functional and creature comforts, but also spiritual comfort.” – Samuel Mockbee
“Architecture is not a purely private transaction between architects and clients. It affects everyone, so it ought to be understandable to everyone. – Blair Kamin
“Architecture is vital and enduring because it contains us; it describes space, space we move through, exit in and use.” – Richard Meier in his 1984 Pritzker Prize Ceremony Speech
55.建筑,相较于材料来说,更重要的是理念。—— 马清运,《洛杉矶时报》
“Architecture is more about ideas than materials.” – Qingyun Ma in Los Angeles Times
56.建筑不只是为了像博物馆一样的明星作品而存在。它也是为了那些明星作品周围的穷街陋巷。——Juan Ramon Adsuara,全国公共广播电台(NPR)
“Architecture is not just for big star projects like museums. It’s for the slums around them, too.” – Juan Ramon Adsuara in npr
57.建筑羞于现实。——Wouter Vanstiphout,于《Archis》杂志
“Architecture is bashful about reality.” – Wouter Vanstiphout in Archis
58.建筑只是一个背景,建筑之美在于它能将人们聚集在一起并创造出公共意向。——Ben Van Berkel,ArchDaily 访谈
“Architecture is just background. The beauty of architecture is that it brings people together and can create public constructs.” – Ben Van Berkel in AD Interviews
“Architecture is blessed and cursed with more dimensions than its greats know what to do with: the three of sensible space, the celebrated fourth of travel through it; and others, ineffable, beyond—the fifth of utility, say, the seventh of happy accident, the ominous eleventh.” – Philip Nobel in Metropolis
61.建筑是一个需要小心保守的秘密。—— Jean Nouvel, 《赫芬顿邮报》
“Architecture is a mystery that must be preserved.” – Jean Nouvel in Huffington Post
62.建筑与社会的愿景一样伟大。—— Lisa Rochon,《环球邮报》
“Architecture is only as great as the aspirations of its society.” – Lisa Rochon in Globe and Mail
“Architecture is like the picture of Dorian Gray: It can look beautiful in public, while somewhere out of sight its true soul withers and rots.” – Lance Hosey in Architect
64.建筑是关于理性的吗?——Alfred Caldwell,《芝加哥论坛报》
“Architecture is about reason-right?” – Alfred Caldwell in Chicago Tribune
65.建筑是一门乐观主义的职业。——Johanna Hurme,《Spacing》杂志
“Architecture is a profession of optimism.” – Johanna Hurme in spacing
66.建筑在于对于光的控制:既是照明光也是自然光。——Tom Kundig,《建筑实录》杂志
“Architecture is about the manipulation of light: both artificial light and day lighting.”- Tom Kundig in Architectural Record
67. 建筑在很多情形下背负了太多重量。—— Patricia Patkau,《环球邮报》
“Architecture is expected to carry too much weight in many cases.” – Patricia Patkau in Globe and Mail
“Architecture is more than making a statement from the street. It’s making an environment for living.” – Dion Neutra in Los Angeles Times
71.建筑是一段翻译过程。——Fernando Romero,《都市报》
“Architecture is a translation process.” – Fernando Romero in Metropolis
72.建筑是一项颇为精细又分神的任务。——Nicholas Grimshaw,《卫报》
“Architecture is quite a narrow, obsessive business.” – Nicholas Grimshaw in The Guardian
73.建筑令人困惑的一点是,它对于传达愉悦感的能力是不一致的,而我们关注点又建立在这种情感之上。——Alan de Botton,文“建筑之悦”
“Architecture is perplexing in how inconsistent is its capacity to generate the happiness on which its claim to our attention is founded.” – Alain de Botton in The Architecture of Happiness
74.建筑是一种都市芭蕾。—— Aaron Betsky,《纽约时报》
“Architecture is a kind of urban ballet.” – Aaron Betsky in New York Times
75.建筑是由胜利者书写的一段风韵历史。——Herbert Muschamp,《纽约时报》
“Architecture is a history of style written by the victors.” – Herbert Muschamp in New York Times
“Architecture is driven by belief in the nature of the real and the physical: the specific qualities of one thing – its material, form, arrangement, substance, detail – over another.” – Kester Rattenbury in This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions
80.建筑是一段神奇的自我旅程。你能做出成就,你能建造房屋,你能欣赏它们。这就是我享受生活而不感到难受的原因。—— Stanley Tigerman,《芝加哥论坛报》
“Architecture is an incredible ego trip. You get things done, you build them, you look at them. That’s why I enjoy life and don’t have an ulcer. – Stanley Tigerman in the Chicago Tribune
“Architecture is a strange field where we’re constantly asked to demonstrate over and over why design matters, to everyone, all the time. It’s exhausting.” – Amale Andraos in Metropolis
“Architecture is about the lack of stability and how to address it. Architecture is about the void and how to cross it. Architecture is about inhospitability and how to live within it.” – Geoff Manaugh in The Guardian
83. “建筑同时是一门艺术和实践追求。这项专业又总是被分为那些强调艺术、纯粹设计的,和那些以务实为先的。”—— Paul Goldberger 《纽约时报》
“Architecture is both an art and a practical pursuit, and the profession has always been divided between those who emphasize the art, that is pure design, and those who give priority to the practical.” – Paul Goldberger in New York Times
84. 建筑是一个文明永久性的反映之一。——Charlie Rose
Architecture is one of the reflections of the permanence of a civilization. – Charlie Rose
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. – Martin Filler in The New York Review of Books
86. “建筑是一份十分危险的工作。如果一个作家写了一本糟糕的书,呃,人们可以不去读它。但如果你造了一栋糟糕的建筑,你将在一处地方留下一百年的丑陋身影。” ——Renzo Piano 《时代》杂志
“Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don’t read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.” – Renzo Piano in Time
88. “建筑是一门直接参与塑造外壳、建造或推翻障碍,或更明确地说,延伸或限制“自由”的学科。”——E. Sean Bailey 和 Erandi de Silva 发表于《BI》创刊号《自由:无拘无束的建筑》
“Architecture is a discipline directly engaged with shaping enclosure, of erecting and toppling barriers or—more explicitly—of extending and limiting ‘freedoms’.” – E. Sean Bailey & Erandi de Silva in “BI’s First Print Edition Released – FREE: Architecture on the Loose”
“Architecture is an art, yet we rarely concentrate our attention on buildings as we do on plays, books, and paintings.” – Witold Rybczynski in Metropolis
91. “建筑涉及监控系统并与之同步。” ——Eric Howeler 《体块》
“Architecture is aligned with and implicated in the systems of surveillance and control.” – Eric Howeler in Volume
92. “建筑有百分之九十是生意,百分之十是艺术。” ——Albert Kahn
“Architecture is 90 per cent business and 10 per cent art.” – Albert Kahn
“Architecture is probably the subject of more theorizing, navel-gazing and introspective agonizing than any of the other arts.” – Paul Gapp in the Chicago Tribune
94. “建筑即发明。” – Oscar Niemeyer 《新闻周刊》
“Architecture is invention.”- Oscar Niemeyer in Newsweek
95. “建筑总是与政治相关。” ——Richard Rogers 《金融时报》
“Architecture is always political.” – Richard Rogers in Financial Times
“Architecture is a frame of mind, it’s about ideas; the profession is about how to translate those ideas into the real world.” – Christopher Janney in Architectural Record
97. “建筑是居住于其中的人们之间互动的积极参与者。” —— Jonathan C. Molly 发表于 ArchDaily
“Architecture is an active participant in the interactions of people within it.” – Jonathan C. Molloy in ArchDaily
“Architecture is not only developing in its own realm, it is constantly assimilating achievements from other fields. – Maya Engeli in Volume
99. “建筑首先同时最重要的,是为人和社会服务。建筑师的责任是:设计满足实用目的的建筑,团结人们并将我们和自然联系起来,同时保存珍稀的资源。” —— Steven Ehrlich 《都市报》
“Architecture is first and foremost about serving people and society. This is an architect’s responsibility: to design buildings that fulfill their practical purpose, bring people together, and connect us to the natural world while preserving precious resources.” – Steven Ehrlich in Metropolis
“Architecture is not just about accommodating very prescriptive demands—it’s doing it in a way that stimulates the unfolding of life. – Bjarke Ingels in Co.Design
105.“建筑暴露在生活中。如果它足够敏感,就可以具有见证过去的品质。” —— Peter Zumthor 《思考建筑》
“Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.” – Peter Zumthor in Thinking Architecture
“Architecture is a combination of science and fiction.” – Winy Maas in Domus
108. “建筑是我们最常见、最亲近的艺术,但正因为它是功能性的,并且为生活所需,所以要辨清建筑中的“艺术”从何处开始是困难的 。”——Jonathan Jones 《卫报》
“Architecture is the art we all encounter most often, most intimately, yet precisely because it is functional and necessary to life, it’s hard to be clear about where the “art” in a building begins.” – Jonathan Jones in The Guardian
“Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.” Harry Seidler in the Sydney Morning Herald
110. “建筑被政治领袖用来号召、感染和震慑。” —— Deyan Sudjic 《华盛顿邮报》
“Architecture is used by political leaders to seduce, to impress, and to intimidate.” – Deyan Sudjic in The Washington Post
“Architecture is about giving form to the places where people live. It is not more complicated than that but also not simpler than that. – Alejandro Aravena in his 2016 Pritzker Prize acceptance speech
“Architecture is generally a poor relative to things like film, fashion and product design. Even though it is economically more important, for some reason it is not getting the recognition.” – Tamsie Thomson in The Architects’ Journal
“Architecture is a complex and articulated process but if you lose the process and only keep the form you lose the core of architectural practice.” – André Tavares in Wallpaper*
116. “建筑是一门实践的诗学。”——Bjarke Ingels 发表于纽约客文化节
“Architecture is practical poetry.” – Bjarke Ingels at the New Yorker Festival
117.“建筑是不可避免的协商的总和。” – Felipe Mesa《Domus》
“Architecture is the sum of inevitable negotiations.” – Felipe Mesa in Domus
118. “建筑不只是房屋;这些建造物能启发驱使人们去做伟大的事。”——Fisk Johnson 发表于2017芝加哥建筑双年展
“Architecture is more than just buildings; these structures can inspire and motivate people to do great things.” Fisk Johnson for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial
119. “建筑是那些永远不缺意见的学科之一。” ——Guy Horton 发表于《都市报》
“Architecture is one of those disciplines that has no shortage of voices.” – Guy Horton in Metropolis
“Architecture is always a temporary modification of the space, of the city, of the landscape. We think that it’s permanent. But we never know.” – Jean Nouvel in The New York Times
121.“建筑如同生活,都是关于权衡。” ——Paul Goldberger 《纽约时报》
“Architecture is like life: a matter of trade-offs.” – Paul Goldberger in The New York Times