Architecture Quotes · Page 57

I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to…

— Ben Katchor

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

— Marcel Wanders

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine

— Daniel Libeskind

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched…

— Thomas Heatherwick

The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

— Walter Gropius

“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.”

— Psixomaxaristw

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

— Douglas Crockford

I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

— Dexter Fletcher

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities…

— Alvar Aalto

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still…

— Santiago Calatrava

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change…

— Thom Mayne

As far as documentaries, 'Man on Wire,' 'Atomic Cafe,' 'Waltz With Bashir,' and 'Thin Blue Line' all offered me different perspectives to…

— Keith Maitland

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together…

— Tom Ford

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also…

— Invader

I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have…

— Michael Graves

I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude…

— Abi Morgan

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my…

— Roopa Ganguly

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

— Peter Zumthor

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

— Catherine Deneuve

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

— Paul Goldberger

I got a degree in architecture for the educational experience but in terms of career, everything is cinema.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and…

— John Prebble

“Norns are incredible architects. They simply use death as a building block.” Andacellus, Viddion marah.”

— Taylor Grace

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

— Henry Paulson

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way…

— Bjarke Ingels

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not…

— Frank Gehry

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

— Ove Arup

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

— Thom Mayne

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

— Arthur Erickson

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

— Roman Coppola

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in…

— Christopher Bailey

I would like to have . . . architecture that belonged where you see it standingand is a grace to the landscape…

— Uknown

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the…

— Gianfranco Ferre

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

— Oscar Niemeyer

What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect…

— Kanye West

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

— Robert Venturi

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

— Renzo Piano