Architecture Quotes · Page 38

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

— Maya Lin

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

— David Carson

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or…

— Martin Filler

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

— Robin Boyd

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

— Zaha Hadid

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

— Russell Lynes

In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the…

— Ken Yeang

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture,…

— Gates McFadden

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting…

— Renzo Piano

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was…

— Stefan Sagmeister

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is…

— Minoru Yamasaki

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen…

— Luis Gonzalez

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I…

— Michael Arad

When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the…

— Christian de Portzamparc

If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of…

— Dean Koontz

“IT historically goes for perfection. Many times there is the thinking that unless every business requirement, function or feature is implemented the…

— Randy A. Steinberg

The original AMD GCN architecture allowed for one source of graphics commands, and two sources of compute commands. For PS4, we've worked…

— Mark Cerny

Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're…

— Jonathan Anderson

“What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone. “That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it…

— Jessica Hawkins

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his…

— Henry B. Eyring

“I’m at architecture school at UCLA.” “Ooooh, I love architects. They have such big buildings.” Oh Lord, let the floor open up…

— Valerie Thomas

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual,…

— Maya Lin

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an…

— El Lissitzky

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology…

— Kenzo Tange

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

— Moshe Safdie

“A choice architect has the responsibility for organizing the context in which people make decisions.”

— Richard H. Thaler

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been…

— Jillian Hervey

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

— Jimenez Lai

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.

— Ann Widdecombe

Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

— John Mercer Johnson

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

— Antoine Predock

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be…

— Peter Eisenman

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom…

— Arthur Erickson

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

— Brian Baumgartner

“Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure.”

— John Cage