Famous Quotes
- There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
- Kenzo Tange on Architecture
- There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
- James H. Breasted on Architecture
- There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
- Edwin Lutyens on Architecture
- They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
- Henry David Thoreau on Architecture
- Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
- Antonio Gaudi on Architecture
- To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
- Le Corbusier on Architecture
- To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
- Martha Graham on Architecture
- To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
- Daniel Libeskind on Architecture
- To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
- Ai Weiwei on Architecture
- Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
- Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
- Robert Palmer on Architecture
- Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
- Jo Nesbo on Architecture
- Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
- Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.
- Levon Helm on Architecture
- We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
- We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
- Minoru Yamasaki on Architecture
- We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
- John Ruskin on Architecture
- We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill on Architecture
- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
- Alvar Aalto on Architecture
- We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
- Tony Scott on Architecture
- What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
- Bernard Levin on Architecture
- 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 on Architecture
- What people want, above all, is order.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.
- Tony Hale on Architecture
- Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- Jim Rohn on Architecture
- When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
- Juan Goytisolo on Architecture
- 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 on Architecture
- When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
- Daniel Libeskind on Architecture
- Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Martin Mull on Architecture
- Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
- Goldwin Smith on Architecture
- You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
- Ben Nicholson on Architecture
- You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
- Walter Russell Mead on Architecture
- You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
- Thom Mayne on Architecture
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