Architecture Quotes · Page 26

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

— Ayn Rand

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

— Louis Kahn

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

— Aldo Rossi

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

— Lawrence Weiner

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

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

— Nicholas Biddle

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

— Louis Sullivan

“Don’t picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.”

— John Eldredge

“Why did you decide to be an architect?” “I didn’t know it then. But it’s because I’ve never believed in God.”

— Ayn Rand

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

— Parker Stevenson

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and…

— Tadao Ando

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

— Steven Holl

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

— Santiago Calatrava

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much…

— Harry Seidler

Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it's very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the…

— NikkieTutorials

Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his…

— e. e. cummings

I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was…

— Elizabeth Diller

I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes…

— Daniel Levitin

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every…

— Christian de Portzamparc

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it…

— Moshe Safdie

“History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with…

— Thomas B. Costain

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art…

— Martin Filler

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art.…

— Charles Jencks

There are lots of incredible people who are working in very flawed structures that are designed to keep us apart, so we're…

— Naomi Klein

Your mind is the matrix, the door will lead you to the architect. The architect is you. You're the key maker, you…

— Jeremy Limn

The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose…

— Lawrence Lessig

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in…

— Edith Wharton

“A growth decorated in warmth of uniformity, wrapped as project. Your life's tomorrow thrust at your steps, crowning you architect. Moving steps…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

— Henry Miller

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“It started to go wrong quite early, my relationship with Architecture”

— Jeremy Till

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

— Anonymous

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

— Kevin McCloud

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

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

When does a building actually become a built?

— Le Corbusier

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

— Philip Johnson