Architecture Quotes · Page 27

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

— El Lissitzky

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

— Ayn Rand

I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.

— Casey Wilson

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

— Jack Anderson

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

— Brian Foote

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

— Dan Brown

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

— Anonymous

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

— Osbert Lancaster

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to…

— Christian de Portzamparc

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

— Roger Scruton

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be…

— Sandra Bullock

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

— Toyo Ito

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

— Antoine Predock

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

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

— Brian Krzanich

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

“The word “Building” makes a completed structure seem under construction. Once a building is finished, it should be called a “Built.” Similarly,…

— Jarod Kintz

Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential…

— Frank Gehry

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design,…

— Ai Weiwei

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are…

— Miuccia Prada

“If there are n workers on a project, there are (n2–n)/2 interfaces across which there may be communication, and there are potentially…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of…

— Rebecca Solnit

From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who…

— John Milton

“Nathaniel Willis, having spent his first week walking the city in drizzling rain, said that when the sun burst forth at last…

— David McCullough

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the…

— Eric Whitacre

“Architecture forms a vital link between people and their surroundings. It acts as a gentle buffer between the fragility of human existence…

— Kengo Kuma

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art,…

— Frank McCourt

Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is…

— Lebbeus Woods

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

— Louis Kahn

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

— Elizabeth Diller

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

— Rem Koolhaas

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

— Vidal Sassoon

I mean, if I'm talking about architecture, I like Robert Mallet-Stevens.

— Rick Owens

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

— James Scott Bell

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

— Winston Damarillo

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

— Samuel Mockbee