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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
— Kenneth Clark
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
— Caroline Wozniacki
If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
— Alice Waters
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
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.
— Eduardo Souto De Moura
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
— Daniel Libeskind
Do you know how hard and expensive architecture school is? People drop out to go to med school because it's easier.
— Andrea Laurence
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.
— Spencer Tunick
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
— Bernard Tschumi
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
— Antoine Predock
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
— Minoru Yamasaki
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
— Le Corbusier
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
— Martin Puryear
I think architecture has to be a gift.
— Jean Nouvel
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.
— Kenneth Bayes
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless ... nobody wants to be in it.
— Roger Scruton
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
— James Polshek
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
— Robert Palmer
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
— Roger Scruton
It takes a great client to create great architecture.
— Curtis W. Fentress
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The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
— William Gibson
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
— Douglas Crockford
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
— Daniel Libeskind
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
— Robert Venturi
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
— Paul Goldberger
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
— Stephen Gardiner
We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.
— George Konrad
My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.
— Christian Dior
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
— Phillip E. Johnson
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
— Martin Filler
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
— Kenzo Tange
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
— Alan Huffman
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.
— J. M. W. Turner
the voice seems to echo in the architecture of his head
— Anthony Doerr
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
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
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 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
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ...
— Larry Wall
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
— Charles Jencks
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
— Elvis Costello
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
— Oscar Niemeyer
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
— Renzo Piano
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
— Nancy Banks-Smith
I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture
— Rem Koolhaas
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
— Dieter Rams
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
— Christopher Nolan
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
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
— Roger Scruton
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
— Thelonious Monk
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
— Stephen Gardiner
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
— Thomas Heatherwick
