- Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Steve Martin on Architecture
- Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
- Kenzo Tange on Architecture
- That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
- Jim Woodring on Architecture
- The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
- Thom Mayne on Architecture
- The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
- Helmut Jahn on Architecture
- The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
- Voltaire on Architecture
- The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
- Joel Coen on Architecture
- The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
- George Lamming on Architecture
- The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
- Helmut Jahn on Architecture
- The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
- Havelock Ellis on Architecture
- The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
- Nick Clegg on Architecture
- The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
- John Irving on Architecture
- The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
- Russell Lynes on Architecture
- 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 on Architecture
- The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
- Robert A. M. Stern on Architecture
- The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
- Michael Graves on Architecture
- The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
- Saul Steinberg on Architecture
- The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
- Milton Friedman on Architecture
- The higher the building the lower the morals.
- Noel Coward on Architecture
- The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
- Jay Chiat on Architecture
- The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
- Rem Koolhaas on Architecture
- The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.
- Ralph Erskine on Architecture
- The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
- Thomas A Kempis on Architecture
- The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture
- The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
- The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
- Christopher Nolan on Architecture
- The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.
- Mukesh Ambani on Architecture
- The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Architecture
- The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- 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 on Architecture
- The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
- Thomas Reid on Architecture
- The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay on Architecture
- The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
- Jay Chiat on Architecture
- The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
- Salvador Dali on Architecture
- The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
- Federico Garcia Lorca on Architecture
- The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
- The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
- Adolf Loos on Architecture
- There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Architecture
- There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
- John Baldacci on Architecture
- 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
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