Architecture Quotes · Page 36

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth…

— Rem Koolhaas

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

— Jaime Lerner

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

— Pranav Mistry

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

— Jake Barton

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

“The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.”

— Kenneth Bayes

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and…

— Richard Rogers

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

— Ian Mckellen

The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their…

— Hugh Ferriss

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to…

— John Katzman

Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics,…

— Elizabeth Diller

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and…

— John Irving

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and…

— Ma Yansong

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own,…

— Louis Kahn

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and…

— Peter York

My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the…

— Andy Barrie

The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the…

— Alvin Lustig

“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,…

— Jon Ronson

Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and…

— Ken Yeang

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of…

— Ernest L. Boyer

After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then…

— Angelina Jolie

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention…

— Jimenez Lai

Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation:…

— Jeffrey Zeldman

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

— Minoru Yamasaki

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

— Neri Oxman

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

— Renzo Piano

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

— Larry Wall

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

— Christopher Alexander

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and…

— Denise Scott Brown

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a…

— G.K. Chesterton

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

— Philip Treacy

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

— Alvar Aalto

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

— Steven Holl

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be…

— Eero Saarinen

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

— Lebbeus Woods