Architecture Quotes

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

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.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

The show is called The Office and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

The only thing I learned from the architecture is keep the bathroom and the kitchen near each other, so you don't have to run pipes all over the place.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.