Architecture Quotes

But then architects don't build their own houses.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.