Best Architecture Quotes
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A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
— Jeanne Gang
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
Christianity is a lie, and possibly the best one ever constructed because aside from architecture, it is all that survives from the Roman Empire.
— Alejandro C. Estrada
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
— Marshall McLuhan
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
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
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
— Louis Kahn
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
— Emilio Ambasz
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
— Mark Twain
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
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.
— Luis Barragan
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
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
— Thom Mayne
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
— Helmut Jahn
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
— Charles Jencks
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
— Le Corbusier
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
— Thom Mayne
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