Architecture Quotes

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

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

Home is where you hang your head.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

Architecture must make connections

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.