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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
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
— Michael Graves
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
— Philip Johnson
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip ... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears ...
— Arnold Schoenberg
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
— Walter Gropius
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
— Charlie Chaplin
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
Architecture is the king or queen of the arts,
— Gaetano Pesce
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.
— Eduardo Souto De Moura
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
— Juhani Pallasmaa
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
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The room is the beginning of architecture.
— Louis Kahn
For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
— Vidal Sassoon
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
Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light
— Le Corbusier
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
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
— Daniel Libeskind
A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.
— Lebbeus Woods
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
— Michael Graves
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
— Le Corbusier
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
— Renzo Piano
Game design is dead. Long live the architecture of play.
— Miguel Sicart
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
— Jaime Lerner
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
— Bjarke Ingels
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
— Hugh Casson
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
— Michael Graves
To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.
— Andre Ovredal
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
— Leon Krier
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 work of nations
— John Ruskin
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.
— Luc De Clapiers
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
— Richard Meier
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
— Christian Dior
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
— Charlotte Bunch
Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our timeIs becoming the architecture of the next time. — Mark Strand
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
— Yoshio Taniguchi
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
— Socrates
As scientists put it, the brain is plastic, or moldable. Yes, the actual physical architecture of the brain changes based on what happens to us.
— Daniel J. Siegel
The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.
— Antoine Predock
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
— William Bennett
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
— Rem Koolhaas
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
— Stephen Gardiner
Dressmaking is the architecture of movement
— Pierre Balmain
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
— Kevin McCloud
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
— Michelangelo
The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation.
— Norris Brock Johnson
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
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
— Lewis Mumford
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
— Zaha Hadid
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
— Christopher Nolan
Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
architecture is an art of the mind that will display in front of the eyes from others which can satisfy their needs
— Jan Jansen
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
— Philip Johnson
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.
— Ivan Chtcheglov
Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware?
— Michael Chabon
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
— Christopher Wren
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
— Ernest Dimnet
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
— Thom Mayne
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The future of architecture is culture.
— Philip Johnson
leverage points that set us apart from the crowded marketplace. Business Architecture is all about vision, alignment
— Guy Sereff
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.
— Cameron Sinclair
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.
— Timothy Levitch
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
— Minoru Yamasaki
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
— Daniel Dennett
The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.
— Kenneth Bayes
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
— Le Corbusier
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
— Phillip E. Johnson
The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.
— Bertrand Delanoe
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
— Renzo Piano
The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
— Jacque Fresco
Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
— Lebbeus Woods
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
— Francis Picabia
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
— Annabelle Selldorf
