- 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
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