Architecture Quotes · Page 37

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is…

— Harry Seidler

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything…

— Patricia Churchland

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

— Maya Lin

“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.”

— Jomo Kenyatta

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

— Arizona Muse

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into…

— Bjarke Ingels

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of…

— Santiago Calatrava

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no…

— Helmut Jahn

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but…

— Zaha Hadid

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews,…

— Bill Rancic

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels…

— Ernest Hemingway

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid -…

— Amanda Hearst

The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work…

— Wayne Thiebaud

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of…

— Amitai Etzioni

All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and…

— Elihu Burritt

As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Structure is what makes communication hang together. It's like the rails that a train runs on. Without them, things wouldn't move very…

— Nancy Duarte

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did…

— Glenn Ligon

Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it:…

— Salvador Dali

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The word infrastructure originates from the words infra (meaning beneath) and structure. It encompasses all components that are available “beneath the structure”,…

— Sjaak Laan

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of…

— Carl Magnusson

I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in…

— Walter Gropius

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

— Peter Zumthor

I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.

— Dacre Montgomery

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

— Robert Adams

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

— Arthur Erickson

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

— Emilio Ambasz

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

— Jan Gehl

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture.…

— Frank Gehry

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write.…

— Greta Gerwig

“Design Thinking is about to connect ideas and methods from different areas of thought, in order to create new structures, new associations,…

— Jose Betancur

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

— Jandy Nelson

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

— Nicole Krauss

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

— Leon Krier

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— Robert Smithson