Architecture Quotes · Page 56

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

— Walter Gropius

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in…

— Carol Ross Barney

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

— Frank Gehry

The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist.

— Jonathan Anderson

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so…

— Beaumont Newhall

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

— Bill Henson

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past.…

— Santiago Calatrava

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a…

— Leon Krier

I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the…

— Lidia Bastianich

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They…

— Evelyn Waugh

Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the…

— Santiago Calatrava

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like…

— Albert Einstein

I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I…

— Olivier Zahm

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

— Terry Pratchett

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

— Antoine Predock

“We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”

— Edward Tufte

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite…

— Zaha Hadid

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

— Daniel Libeskind

“Generally, the modeler should look for natural boundaries of the system to capture the most important and impactful structure.”

— Rich Jolly

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

— Samuel Mockbee

“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.

— Andre Gide

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

— Frank Gehry

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

— Victor J. Stenger

“We don’t yet know the names of the architects who will build the next upgrade to the secret-killing machine. But we’ll know…

— Andy Greenberg

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

— Richard Meier

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.

— Renzo Piano

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess…

— Carol Ross Barney

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior…

— Lenny Kravitz

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

— Graham Greene

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

— Lenny Kravitz

“the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details”

— Soumeet Lanka

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

— David Chipperfield

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building…

— Steven Holl

“The structure crouched like a great stone tiger on a slope of the East Bay, resting on the cliffside with calm grace.”

— Aspen Matis

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form…

— Peter Zumthor