Architecture Quotes · Page 40

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite…

— Zaha Hadid

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

— Antoine Predock

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

— Terry Pratchett

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

— Samuel Mockbee

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

— Daniel Libeskind

“Generally, the modeler should look for natural boundaries of the system to capture the most important and impactful structure.”

— Rich Jolly

I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The…

— Pauline Oliveros

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that…

— Paul Virilio

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so…

— Michael Ondaatje

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“AND SO THE STORY ENDS, bracketed by two architects: Daedalus, who built the Minoan labyrinth, and Ventris, who found the thread that…

— Margalit Fox

The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes…

— Christopher Wren

For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux…

— Eugene Atget

Communication requires cultural context, and technology facilitates our ability to cross-reference ideas over time. Charles Moore were saying: Enough with the sterile,…

— Jimenez Lai

It may be unfathomable in architecture, but it is very practical, or routine, for a person in theater to use action. You…

— Keller Easterling

“...you become the architect of your life. From coloring inside the lines to outside the lines to drawing new lines altogether. And…

— Kathleen Griffith

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in…

— Anonymous

If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with…

— Michael Atiyah

Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our…

— Christopher Marlowe

My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good,…

— Sean Lennon

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

— Leon Krier

Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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

— Robert Smithson

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.”

— Cedric Price

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

— Bill Henson

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past.…

— Santiago Calatrava

The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist.

— Jonathan Anderson

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so…

— Beaumont Newhall

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in…

— Carol Ross Barney

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

— Frank Gehry

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

— Walter Gropius

“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

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

— Robert Adams