Architecture Quotes
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A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war.
— Kate Atkinson
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
— Jeanne Gang
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip ... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears ...
— Arnold Schoenberg
I think I have said enough.
— Cedric Price
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Be the best, not necessarily the original.
— I.M. Pei
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.
— Eduardo Souto De Moura
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
— Marshall McLuhan
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
— Roman Coppola
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
— Daniel Libeskind
It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.
— Michael Ian Black
Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
— Christian De Portzamparc
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
— Peter Zumthor
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
— Harry Seidler
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
— Drew Barrymore
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
— Prince Charles
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
— Iain McGilchrist
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
— Louis Kahn
The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.
— Emily Haines
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
— Christian Louboutin
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.
— J. M. W. Turner
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
— Richard Rogers
the voice seems to echo in the architecture of his head
— Anthony Doerr
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
— Minoru Yamasaki
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
— Frank Gehry
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
— Bertrand Russell
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Architecture theory is very interesting.
— David Byrne
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
— Christopher Nolan
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
— Stephen Gardiner
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
— Helmut Jahn
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
— Salvador Dali
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.
— Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.
— Claudio Silvestrin
References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual
— Dan Brown
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
— Neil Denari
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
— Roger Scruton
I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
— Kelly Wearstler
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
— Thelonious Monk
Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
— Frances Mayes
Architecture is invention.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.
— Owen Hatherley
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.
— Jimenez Lai
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
— Thomas Heatherwick
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
— Leon Krier
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
— Philip Johnson
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
— Le Corbusier
Tradition is a challenge to innovation..
— Alvaro Siza Vieira
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
— Thom Mayne
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
— Arne Jacobsen
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ...
— Larry Wall
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
— Mark Twain
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
— Charles Jencks
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
— Tadao Ando
I am but an architectural composer.
— Alexander Jackson Davis
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
— Elvis Costello
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.
— Timothee Besset
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
— Thomas Reid
Architecture is the work of nations
— John Ruskin
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
— Ernest Dimnet
My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it
— Marco Casagrande
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.
— Ivan Chtcheglov
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
— Richard Rogers
Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware?
— Michael Chabon
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
— Jay Chiat
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
— Christopher Wren
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
— Bjarke Ingels
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
— Claes Oldenburg
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
— Peter Eisenman
I learn urgentlythe architecture of loss
then find you again. — Warsan Shire
I'm very interested in architecture.
— Nikki Sixx
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
— Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
— R. Buckminster Fuller