Architecture Quotes · Page 56

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

— Ma Yansong

“Don’t picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.”

— John Eldredge

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and…

— Oksana Baiul

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

— Tom Kenyon

I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.

— Kim Gordon

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

— Santiago Calatrava

“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.”

— Melvyn Conway

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

— Michael Graves

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization…

— Fritjof Capra

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today…

— Alan Weisman

“Nothing man made was perfect. A partnership wasn't about being beautiful and adored...it was about incorporating the mistakes into the architecture and…

— Suanne Laqueur

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind…

— Shigeru Ban

“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

— David Chipperfield

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

— Ian Mckellen

In writing 'The Humans,' I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture.

— Stephen Karam

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act -…

— Thom Mayne

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was…

— Howard Hodgkin

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

— Christopher Wren

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life…

— Hill Harper

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

— Santiago Calatrava

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

— Zaha Hadid

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for…

— Diane Dreher

“It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]”

— Owen Hatherley

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…

— Arnold Schoenberg

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

— Rob Chapman

It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know…

— Thomas Heatherwick

If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very…

— Paolo Soleri

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

— Bjarke Ingels

“Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped,…

— Judith Clancy

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

— Zaha Hadid

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

— Zaha Hadid

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

— Will Self

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love…

— Martha Graham

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

— Hugh Hardy

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

— Daniel Libeskind