Architecture Quotes · Page 10

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

— Daniel Pennac

The room is the beginning of architecture.

— Louis Kahn

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

— Arne Jacobsen

The one overall structure in my plays is language

— Edward Bond

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

— Bryant H. McGill

The architect works in the territory of memory.

— Mario Botta

I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.

— Edward C. Prescott

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

— Robert Smithson

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

— Tadao Ando

“sketching out, like an architect, the plan of salvation to those that pleased Him.”

— The Church Fathers

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

— Anonymous

“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.”

— James C. Snyder

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.”

— Alice Munro

No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.

— Philip K. Dick

Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether…

— Pete Munro

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of…

— K.P. Yohannan

All of these technologies that we are putting together... our memory technology, our CPU, our graphics architecture, our GPUs - all that…

— Brian Krzanich

I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But…

— Lebbeus Woods

I fell in love with it. Walking around just feels so cinematic. I find the aris- tocratic parts of London so unattractive…

— Imogen Poots

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of…

— Francois Jacob

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long.…

— Ben Nicholson

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can…

— Jean Nouvel

As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are…

— Bernd Becher

“This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject…

— Noam Chomsky

I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in…

— Lebbeus Woods

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture...…

— Seth Godin

“Page 158: 'Architecture is team work,' said Sinan. 'Apprenticeship is not.' 'Why don't you want us to look at each other's drawings?…

— Elif Şafak

“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the…

— Howard Mansfield

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter,…

— Tim O'Reilly

The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the…

— Keller Easterling

When I was in L.A., the structure wasn't up to par as I wanted it to be.

— D'Angelo Russell

“Both the imagination and the architecture are infinite.”

— Aleksandra Mizielińska & Daniel Mizieliński

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

— Thomas Heatherwick

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

— Benjamin Zander

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

— Julia Morgan

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

— Christiana Figueres