Architecture Quotes

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

When does a building actually become a built?

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in one pot.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.