Architecture Quotes

“Truth has the structure of a fiction.”

— Lacan

What people want, above all, is order.

— Stephen Gardiner

I liked the structure of ballet.

— Wendy Whelan

Architects need to restore and protect.

— Carol Ross Barney

“architecture is a way of life”

— Barwa

Entropy is the price of structure.

— Ilya Prigogine

Architecture is politics.

— Mitchell Kapor

I love architecture.

— Chris Pine

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

— Colley Cibber

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

— Abbie Hoffman

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

— Steve Martin

I actually feel like a very traditional architect.

— Ma Yansong

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

— Thom Mayne

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big…

— Bjarke Ingels

“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.”

— John Paul Warren

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the…

— Santiago Calatrava

I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important…

— Cesar Pelli

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

— Michael Graves

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

— Jeanne Gang

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think…

— Ron Eglash

The 'Scowcroft Model' recognizes - and embraces - the unique but necessarily modest place the National Security Council and the national security…

— Robert C. O'Brien

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,…

— Amor Towles

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In…

— Vint Cerf

“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth,…

— Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating…

— Vera Wang

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it…

— Anonymous

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act…

— Thom Mayne

I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a…

— Charles Gwathmey

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is.…

— Louis Kahn

I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an…

— Michael Jackson

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,…

— Eliot Noyes

Sometimes , Love just seems so hard to express itself.. Only yourself, through your soul do you know how it feels like.…

— Hao Ming

The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The…

— Mark Twain

I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing…

— Omar Rodriguez-Lopez