Architecture Quotes · Page 54

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

— Pranav Mistry

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

— Jaime Lerner

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

— Jake Barton

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

— Ian Mckellen

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and…

— Richard Rogers

“The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.”

— Kenneth Bayes

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

— Larry Wall

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

— Renzo Piano

It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time…

— John Gimlette

In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to…

— Barbara Hulanicki

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream…

— Luke Macfarlane

For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and…

— James Rouse

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because,…

— Bjarke Ingels

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the…

— Anonymous

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same…

— Zaha Hadid

“And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must…

— Peter Ackroyd

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

“We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like…

— Erik Pevernagie

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s…

— Daniel Clowes

Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are…

— Ambrose Bierce

I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and…

— Keith Sonnier

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with…

— Stephen Shore

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

— Neri Oxman

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

— Minoru Yamasaki

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

— Philip Treacy

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a…

— G.K. Chesterton

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

— Christopher Alexander

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and…

— Denise Scott Brown

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

— Alvar Aalto

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be…

— Eero Saarinen

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

— Lebbeus Woods

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

— Steven Holl

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

— Maya Lin

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything…

— Patricia Churchland