Architecture Quotes · Page 49

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

— Anonymous

May every man is not the architect of his own fortune; but every man is the architect of his own character.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building…

— Ayn Rand

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

— Arne Jacobsen

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

— Peter Zumthor

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should…

— John Ruskin

I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the…

— Quentin Crisp

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture…

— Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to…

— Rem Koolhaas

“The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d…

— Ben Aaronovitch

When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you…

— David Chipperfield

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

— Tony Hadley

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly…

— Neri Oxman

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years.…

— Peter Marino

Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People…

— Philip Johnson

I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I…

— Robert Lepage

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture…

— Bill Mollison

“Organizing one’s system around the A5 Active Knower is an essential feature of the Kantian Paradigm: the examination of anything else, including…

— Lee Braver

“One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church…

— Rebecca Solnit

In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“While for critics of sprawl the generic signifies a loss of local identity and connection to place, for Koolhaas it represents an…

— Graham Owen

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what…

— Ma Yansong

Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.

— Kenya Kinski-Jones

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

— Christian de Portzamparc

“I love that your house plans for you to get muddy. Like it's in the architecture.”

— Rainbow Rowell

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

— Saul Steinberg

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

— Kevin Costner

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

— Marc Newson

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public…

— William Gibson

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.

— George Papandreou

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

— Philip Johnson

Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I…

— Erik Naggum

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

— Robert Wilson

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

— Jimenez Lai

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else…

— Annabelle Selldorf

“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.”

— Kristen Wagner