Architecture Quotes · Page 53

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

— Rem Koolhaas

“All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.”

— Elisabeth Beazley

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

— Leon Krier

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

— Alan Huffman

“I see the task of architecture as the defence of the authenticity of human experience. -Juhani Pallasmaa”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

— Eli Broad

“superstitions, our worries and our wars; they will gawk at our cruelty. They will study our art and argue over our history.…

— Mark Manson

“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power,” Ban said recently. “Power and money are invisible, so people…

— Anonymous

“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“A church leader studied the history of architecture in New Zealand and found that before World War II, homes were built with…

— Lee Strobel

The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with…

— Lebbeus Woods

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“When he first saw the little room with the glass balcony, Mr. Liechtenstein immediately thought of the archaic aristocratic English garden concept…

— Anonymous

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first…

— Paul Simon

Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape.…

— Dennis Kucinich

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and…

— Walter Gropius

“If we close our eyes and take a deep breath, and summon meaningful memories, we quickly notice that they are tied to…

— Sarah Robinson

“I’m relieved to see that even brilliant physicists make mistakes.” Kohler looked over. “What do you mean?” “Whoever wrote that note made…

— Dan Brown

“The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature tyrannizes over our works. They must be conformed to her…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more…

— John Ruskin

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

— Louis Kahn

Through the mind, we create a prison of suffering and then forget that we are the architect and that we ourselves hold…

— Senoraroy

I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a…

— Alan Menken

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

— Malcolm Miller

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

— Juhani Pallasmaa

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

— John Ruskin

“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end…

— Louis Kahn

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this…

— John Pawson

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

— Douglas Crockford

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

— George Ade

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

— Stephen Gardiner

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

— Peter Gabriel

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

— Le Corbusier