Famous Quotes
- A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
- Ayn Rand on Architecture
- A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
- Helmut Jahn on Architecture
- A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
- Louis Kahn on Architecture
- A house is a machine for living in.
- Le Corbusier on Architecture
- A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
- Lord Byron on Architecture
- After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
- Harry Seidler on Architecture
- After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
- Harry Seidler on Architecture
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Architecture
- All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
- Philip Johnson on Architecture
- All real education is the architecture of the soul.
- William Bennett on Architecture
- All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
- T. E. Lawrence on Architecture
- All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture
- An important work of architecture will create polemics.
- Richard Meier on Architecture
- And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
- Arne Jacobsen on Architecture
- Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
- Rem Koolhaas on Architecture
- Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
- Richard Meier on Architecture
- Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
- John Portman on Architecture
- Architecture aims at Eternity.
- Christopher Wren on Architecture
- Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
- Jeremy Renner on Architecture
- Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
- Adolf Loos on Architecture
- Architecture begins where engineering ends.
- Walter Gropius on Architecture
- Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
- Frank Stella on Architecture
- Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
- Victor Hugo on Architecture
- Architecture in general is frozen music.
- Friedrich Von Schelling on Architecture
- Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
- Luis Barragan on Architecture
- Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
- Marcus V. Pollio on Architecture
- Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
- Richard Rogers on Architecture
- Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
- Julia Morgan on Architecture
- Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
- Richard Rogers on Architecture
- Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
- Yoshio Taniguchi on Architecture
- Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
- Constantin Brancusi on Architecture
- Architecture is invention.
- Oscar Niemeyer on Architecture
- Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
- Thom Mayne on Architecture
- Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
- Oscar Niemeyer on Architecture
- Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.
- Harry Seidler on Architecture
- Architecture is politics.
- Mitchell Kapor on Architecture
- Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- Philip Johnson on Architecture
- Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
- Le Corbusier on Architecture
- Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
- Louis Kahn on Architecture
- Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe on Architecture
- Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
- Frank Gehry on Architecture
- Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe on Architecture
- Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
- Arne Jacobsen on Architecture
- Architecture theory is very interesting.
- David Byrne on Architecture
- Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
- Oscar Niemeyer on Architecture
- Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
- Ernest Dimnet on Architecture
- Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
- Harry Von Zell on Architecture
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