Architecture Quotes · Page 39

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in…

— Thom Mayne

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

— Santiago Calatrava

“… architects are not acting for themselves but on behalf of others, and this means acting ethically. It is to ethics that…

— Jeremy Till

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

— Daniel Burnham

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

— Francisco Costa

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

— John Mercer Johnson

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

— Alain Robert

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And…

— Daniel Wu

“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

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

— John Ruskin

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that…

— Anne Fortier

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

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a…

— Anthony Ryan

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

For me, architecture is a social act.

— David Adjaye

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

— Frank Gehry

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

— Kim Gordon

“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a…

— John Michael Greer

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

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world,…

— Anonymous