Famous Quotes
- In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
- Michael Graves on Architecture
- In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
- Charles Eames on Architecture
- In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
- Alain Robert on Architecture
- In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
- Delia Ephron on Architecture
- In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
- Adam Carolla on Architecture
- In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
- Nancy Banks Smith on Architecture
- Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
- John Howe on Architecture
- It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
- John Ruskin on Architecture
- It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
- David Allan Coe on Architecture
- It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
- Oscar Niemeyer on Architecture
- It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- John Ruskin on Architecture
- It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
- Oscar Niemeyer on Architecture
- It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
- Helmut Jahn on Architecture
- Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
- Minoru Yamasaki on Architecture
- Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- Less is more.
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe on Architecture
- Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
- Thomas Fuller on Architecture
- Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
- Frank Gehry on Architecture
- Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
- Frank Gehry on Architecture
- Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
- Daniel Burnham on Architecture
- Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture
- My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
- Thom Mayne on Architecture
- My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
- Julia Morgan on Architecture
- My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
- Luis Barragan on Architecture
- My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
- Parker Stevenson on Architecture
- My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
- Richard Rogers on Architecture
- No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
- Michael Ende on Architecture
- No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
- John Ruskin on Architecture
- Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture
- Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
- Rem Koolhaas on Architecture
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
- Alvar Aalto on Architecture
- Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
- Marcus V. Pollio on Architecture
- Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
- Richard Rogers on Architecture
- Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
- Marilyn Hacker on Architecture
- Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
- Joseph Kosinski on Architecture
- One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
- Oksana Baiul on Architecture
- 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 on Architecture
- Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture
- Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
- Robert Smithson on Architecture
- People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.
- Rem Koolhaas on Architecture
- People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
- Marc Newson on Architecture
- Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
- Audre Lorde on Architecture
- Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
- Larry Wall on Architecture
- Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
- Arne Jacobsen on Architecture
- Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
- Ernest Hemingway on Architecture
- Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
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