Architecture Quotes · Page 51

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

— David Chipperfield

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

— Peter Eisenman

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

— Christopher Nolan

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

— Quinlan Terry

“A revolution which can transform modes of production but not types of speech, social relations but not styles of architecture, remains radically…

— Terry Eagleton

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

— Ai Weiwei

“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential…

— Freeman Dyson

“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry,…

— Tom McDonough

“In antiquity , for instance, one of the dominant images of the translators was that of a builder: his (usually it was…

— Andrew Chesterman

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic -…

— Zaha Hadid

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge…

— Ralph Thomas Walker

In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn't have a…

— John Densmore

I can't go to a restaurant or a hotel now without looking at the architecture and wondering how it would look if…

— Gareth Evans

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I…

— Thom Mayne

“What then is this thing called Design if it is neither style nor applied art? It is planning: the planning as objectively…

— Bruno Munari

François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did…

— I. M. Pei

The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have…

— Santiago Calatrava

Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and…

— David Adjaye

“For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that…

— Alain de Botton

“He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned,…

— Annie Dillard

I think that Democrats have to think through answers we haven't in the past: How we are going to create those jobs?…

— Neera Tanden

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

— James Polshek

The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate…

— Rush Limbaugh

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

— Luc de Clapiers

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

— Stephen Gardiner

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

— David Shields

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

— Christian Dior

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western…

— Tadao Ando

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

— Samuel

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process…

— Michael Hansmeyer

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow…

— Richard Meier

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.

— Magnus Larsson

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

— Frank Gehry

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the…

— Alvar Aalto

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

— Grant Shapps