Architecture Quotes · Page 42

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

— Henry Giroux

I'm definitely not good at architecture or design, but I feel like I have people in my life who give me helpful…

— Rachel Sennott

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

— Peter Zumthor

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

— Rem Koolhaas

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

— Ai Weiwei

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first…

— St. Lucia

“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller”

— Cedric Price

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city…

— Frank Gehry

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back…

— James Stewart

Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects,…

— Walter Gropius

Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on…

— Charles Kingsley

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic…

— Jay Kappraff

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the…

— Peter Zumthor

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me.…

— Jess Walter

“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of…

— Wade Graham

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about…

— Zaha Hadid

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as…

— John Ruskin

“On every project, there are always areas that everyone wants to shy away from due to either the political environment or a…

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

“A growth decorated in warmth of uniformity, wrapped as project. Your life's tomorrow thrust at your steps, crowning you architect. Moving steps…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an…

— George R.R. Martin

“...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of…

— Dostoyevsky

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

— Henry Ward Beecher

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the…

— Santiago Calatrava

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

— Jimenez Lai

I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery,…

— Deborah Meaden

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

— Andrew Shaffer

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at…

— Tadao Ando

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing…

— John Ruskin

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

— Julian Treasure

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

— Santiago Calatrava

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and…

— Prince Charles

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I…

— Thom Mayne

I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you…

— Rafael Vinoly

Never underestimate the power of you. You are the architect of your future. Design it however you desire.

— Danielle Maylyn

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because…

— Sam Hinkie

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

— Bill Watterson