Architecture Quotes · Page 44

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant ,and I…

— Doug TenNapel

“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.”

— John Paul Warren

I studied Russian history at school, and I absolutely loved St Petersburg. It was magnificent - the architecture is incredible and has…

— Tony Hadley

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the…

— Dieter Rams

When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of…

— Tim Burton

[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only…

— Dervla Murphy

“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.”

— Norbert Wiener

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to…

— John Katzman

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

— Renzo Piano

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

— Benjamin Haydon

The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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

— Santiago Calatrava

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

— Stephen Gardiner

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

— Philip Johnson

“Architecture’s most kissable aspect is its surface. Space is hard to get a hold on. Structure has historically been inadequately pliant. Geometry—well,…

— Sylvia Lavin

“For a brief period of time the American electric-sign industry looked beyond its most immediate market and collaborated with store designers and…

— Philip Di Lemme

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

— Douglas Crockford

The second I was on the tennis court, I had the structure I wanted. I was in complete control of what I…

— Madison Keys

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

— Daryl Hall

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The structure serves the people, people don't serve the structure

— William Anthony Donohue

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what…

— Arthur Erickson

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and…

— Ada Louise Huxtable