Architecture Quotes · Page 43

Good design and talented architects can transform an ugly house on a relatively accessible and achievable budget.

— George Clarke

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

— Ian MacKaye

“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also…

— Sharon Salzberg

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

— Boyd Holbrook

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

— Bernard Tschumi

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the…

— Edith Wharton

“C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.”

— Cedric Price

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

— Renzo Piano

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many…

— Gauri Khan

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around…

— Jimenez Lai

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what…

— Al Sharpton

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I…

— Jo Nesbo

In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different…

— Edith Sitwell

I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so…

— Santiago Calatrava

Each one of us is the architect of his own fate; and he is unfortunate indeed who will try to build himself…

— Anonymous

“I’m at architecture school at UCLA.” “Ooooh, I love architects. They have such big buildings.” Oh Lord, let the floor open up…

— Valerie Thomas

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his…

— Henry B. Eyring

The original AMD GCN architecture allowed for one source of graphics commands, and two sources of compute commands. For PS4, we've worked…

— Mark Cerny

“IT historically goes for perfection. Many times there is the thinking that unless every business requirement, function or feature is implemented the…

— Randy A. Steinberg

“What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone. “That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it…

— Jessica Hawkins

Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're…

— Jonathan Anderson

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality…

— Martin Filler

Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work…

— Santiago Calatrava

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

— Ma Yansong

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

— Robert Venturi

What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect…

— Kanye West

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

— Oscar Niemeyer

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the…

— Gianfranco Ferre

Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

— Elizabeth Diller

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

— Christian Louboutin

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

— Renzo Piano

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

— Thom Mayne

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in…

— Christopher Bailey

I would like to have . . . architecture that belonged where you see it standingand is a grace to the landscape…

— Uknown

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

— Roman Coppola