Architecture Quotes · Page 47

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

— Glenn Murcutt

The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

— Brian Webb

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

— Ma Yansong

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

— Frank Gehry

Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.

— Elizabeth Diller

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

— John Ruskin

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

— Jeff Bezos

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and…

— Alex Steffen

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for…

— Cesar Pelli

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space…

— Donna Karan

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to…

— Peter Zumthor

“The book as a structure is the Trojan horse of art - it is not feared by average people. It is a…

— Walter Hamady

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a…

— Michael Ian Black

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit…

— Aldis Hodge

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about…

— Zaha Hadid

The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these…

— Dror Benshetrit

“One afternoon he started to talk about his collection of books. Of 3000 books, he found only 30 worth keeping. We were…

— Werner Blaser

“For it to be successful, the architect must • remember that the builder has the inventive and creative responsibility for the implementation;…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of…

— Robert Lawlor

There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male…

— Marina Warner

I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can…

— Kedar Joshi

My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope…

— Cesar Pelli

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else…

— Annabelle Selldorf

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

— Jimenez Lai

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

— Ivan Chtcheglov

My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare…

— Rick Riordan

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

— Philip Johnson

The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.

— Ma Yansong

“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.”

— Kristen Wagner

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

— Mr. Wrestling

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

— Ken Loach

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

— W. H. Auden

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

— Moshe Safdie

“                •   Initiation, business requirements, architecture and design,”

— William Dow

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

— Paul Laffoley

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the…

— Dieter Rams

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of…

— Eero Saarinen