Architecture Quotes · Page 25

“There was practically nothing that he wouldn’t attack, including architecture.”

— Terry Pratchett

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

— Robert Delaunay

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior…

— Danny Rimer

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

— Tadao Ando

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Santiago Calatrava

In your own country, it's easy to make assumptions about people based on accents, about areas based on architecture.

— Rebecca Front

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I…

— Larry Wall

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the…

— James Pearse Connelly

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested,…

— Richard Meier

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

— Mario Botta

Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support…

— Cameron Sinclair

We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes.

— Julian Treasure

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but…

— Robert Lepage

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

— Samuel Mockbee

Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.

— Jensen Huang

Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and…

— Anonymous

“It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard…

— Marina Fiorato

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

— Christian Dior

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name…

— Russell Lynes

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

— David Chipperfield

I like going for walks in the western harbour, a newly-built area of Malmo where the old harbour used to be. It…

— Sofia Helin

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

— Toyo Ito

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

— Zaha Hadid

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

— Peter Zumthor