Top 100 Quotes About Architecture
#1. Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
Zaha Hadid
#2. I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Francisco Costa
#3. If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.
Paul Rand
#4. I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
James Stewart
#5. Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
Henry Ward Beecher
#6. The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
Louis Khan
#8. To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
Bernard Tschumi
#11. In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
Renzo Piano
#12. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Daniel Libeskind
#14. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
Arthur Erickson
#15. Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
#16. Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.
Rebecca Solnit
#17. I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Roger Waters
#18. The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
Martin Filler
#19. Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.
Ben Van Berkel
#20. Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.
Graham Owen
#21. A languid janitor bears
His lantern through colonnades
And the architecture swoons.
Wallace Stevens
#22. The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
Martin Filler
#24. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
Parker Stevenson
#25. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Arthur Erickson
#26. Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Alvar Aalto
#27. I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.
Steve Purdy
#28. I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.
Gottfried Bohm
#29. It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!
Andre Breton
#30. Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
Zaha Hadid
#31. It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.
Bernard Darwin
#32. The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.
Kenneth Bayes
#33. Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
Sammy Cahn
#34. I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
George Hickenlooper
#35. Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.
J. M. W. Turner
#36. 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
#37. Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
Bayard Taylor
#38. It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
Oscar Niemeyer
#39. The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
Vint Cerf
#41. Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#42. When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.
Jandy Nelson
#43. Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building ... A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
Bernard Tschumi
#44. Good architecture lets nature in.
Mario Pei
#45. 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
#46. Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
Thom Mayne
#47. I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
I.M. Pei
#48. The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#49. Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.
Cedric Price
#50. I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.
Sharon Horgan
#51. I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando
#52. New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.
Ruta Sepetys
#53. I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start, or else your work is just a story.
Michael Graves
#54. You look great," he said.
It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house."
He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.
Kristin Hannah
#55. Lyrical lecture, word architecture,
Rap director, the best in my sector.
Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech ...
I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.
Lord Finesse
#56. I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
Sinclair Lewis
#57. I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.
Jim Carrey
#58. Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.
Emma Forrest
#59. I can write, because writing - unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms - is a thing you can do when you're lonely and poor, and have no infrastructure, i.e., a ballet troupe or some cannons.
Caitlin Moran
#60. As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#61. Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.
Byron Ortiz
#62. A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.
Antoine Predock
#63. Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.
Joshua Bell
#64. For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.
Tom Kenyon
#65. He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
Michelangelo
#66. It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
Fabio Novembre
#67. New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
Francis Picabia
#68. The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Stephen Gardiner
#69. Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
Thom Mayne
#70. I have a traditional view of the afterlife ... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.
Doug TenNapel
#71. Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.
Claudio Silvestrin
#72. I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
David Chipperfield
#73. Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
Richard Rogers
#74. Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#75. Let beauty influence the architecture of thought
Matthew Goff
#76. You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
Nate Berkus
#77. Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
Cedric Price
#78. The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
Alvar Aalto
#79. In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.
Alex Ebert
#80. Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.
Roksanda Ilincic
#81. A software architecture is defined by a configuration of architectural elements
components, connectors, and data
constrained in their relationships in order to achieve a desired set of architectural properties.
Anonymous
#82. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
Jay Chiat
#83. If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
Alice Waters
#84. Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.
Paul Gibbons
#85. Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
Juhani Pallasmaa
#86. 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
#87. The castle itself was a huge brick pile, built in the days of William III., which, though they were grand days for the construction of the constitution, were not very grand for architecture of a more material description.
Anthony Trollope
#88. I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.
Donna Tartt
#89. To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.
Romesh Gunesekera
#91. The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
Iain McGilchrist
#92. In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.
Frederick Lenz
#93. Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
William Morris
#94. When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
Annabelle Selldorf
#95. We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.
Jorge Luis Borges
#97. I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
Barry Mann
#98. Architecture is a way of life
Barwa
#99. The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.
Mark Frost
#100. I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.
Jools Holland
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