Architecture Quotes · Page 14

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

— Bernard Tschumi

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

— Ramana Maharshi

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

— Robert Smithson

In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound.

— Julian Treasure

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

— Jimenez Lai

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

— Keith Allen

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

— Walt Whitman

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

— Carrie Mae Weems

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

— Renzo Piano

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

— Anonymous

“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.”

— Chris Sims

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

— Stephen Gardiner

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

— Helmut Jahn

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human…

— Alvar Aalto

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight…

— Arne Jacobsen

“It is usually good to provide people with lots of options, but when the question is complicated, sensible choice architecture guides people…

— Richard H. Thaler

Everywhere in the world, when you travel, you see structures that stand out. Historic structures and new structures. But in India, I…

— Ajay Piramal

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid…

— Peter Greenaway

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more…

— Catherine the Great

I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried…

— Steve Purdy

I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded…

— Mark Kostabi

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for…

— Frank Gehry

“structure has been defined as ‘any assemblage of materials which is intended to sustain loads’, and the study of structures is one…

— Anonymous

“I confront the city with my body; my legs measure the length of the arcade and the width of the square; my…

— Juhani Pallasmaa

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art,…

— Frank McCourt

Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is…

— Lebbeus Woods

Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been…

— Jan Morris

I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where…

— Doug Aitken

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged…

— Shane Carruth

All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern…

— Ferdinand Foch

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

— Ken Yeang

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

— Paulo Freire

“The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station. (on Elgar)”

— Thomas Beecham

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“As architect of your reality, you have the power to create it as you choose.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

— Toyo Ito