Architecture Quotes · Page 35

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

— David Byrne

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about…

— William McDonough

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

— Le Corbusier

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for…

— Frank Gehry

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

— Renzo Piano

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

— Zadie Smith

“Queen Isabella III seemed to have been designed by corporate architects, the sort who put doors halfway up walls for aesthetic balance.”

— Mjke Wood

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating…

— Anonymous

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done,…

— Louis Sullivan

“The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create...he discovers. Those who look for the laws of…

— Antoni Gaudí

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as…

— Ben van Berkel

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

— Donna Karan

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

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

— John Ruskin

I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many…

— Kleber Mendonca Filho

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

— Sarah Robinson

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

— Walter Gropius

“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

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality…

— Raimund Abraham

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study…

— John Adams

I am somebody who has discipline in my life but I personally don't feel that there should be a lot of structure…

— Sargun Mehta

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can…

— Oscar Niemeyer

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

— Helmut Jahn

Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or…

— George Clarke

“Great education defies structure because it is always (always!) individualized, personalized, interactive, nimble, responsive and inspired.”

— Oliver DeMille

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are…

— Bernard Tschumi

The Frank Matcham theaters in the West End in particular are incredible pieces of architecture.

— Adrian Dunbar

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I…

— Philip Warren Anderson

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people…

— Frank Gehry

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

— David Chipperfield

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

— Norman Foster

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

— Moshe Safdie

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

— Paul Laffoley

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built…

— Udo Kier