Architecture Quotes · Page 48

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

— George Ade

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

— Juhani Pallasmaa

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this…

— John Pawson

“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end…

— Louis Kahn

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

— John Ruskin

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I see the task of architecture as the defence of the authenticity of human experience. -Juhani Pallasmaa”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

— Leon Krier

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves…

— Alain de Botton

“If you are a scientist or engineer, an architect or designer, a writer, artist, or musician, or if your creativity is a…

— Richard Florida

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you…

— Renzo Piano

“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.…

— Anonymous

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous…

— Charles Jencks

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying…

— Barry Boehm

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the…

— Toyo Ito

Communication requires cultural context, and technology facilitates our ability to cross-reference ideas over time. Charles Moore were saying: Enough with the sterile,…

— Jimenez Lai

For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux…

— Eugene Atget

Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the…

— William H. Prescott

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in…

— Anonymous

“...you become the architect of your life. From coloring inside the lines to outside the lines to drawing new lines altogether. And…

— Kathleen Griffith

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I…

— Robert Crumb

“Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two…

— Ayn Rand

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,…

— Robert Pinsky

“All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.”

— Elisabeth Beazley

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

— Alan Huffman

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a…

— Alan Menken

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

— Malcolm Miller

Through the mind, we create a prison of suffering and then forget that we are the architect and that we ourselves hold…

— Senoraroy

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

— Louis Kahn

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

— Eli Broad

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

— Antoine Predock

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

— Toyo Ito

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

— Roger Scruton

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be…

— Sandra Bullock

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to…

— Christian de Portzamparc

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

— Rem Koolhaas