Architecture Quotes · Page 20

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

— Cedric Price

“home is the structure/ you build when nowhere else will have you”

— Ann Tweedy

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

— Leonard Baskin

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

— Jessie Burton

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

— Louis Sullivan

“Latent structure is master of obvious structure”

— Heraclitus

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

— Le Corbusier

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

— Lebbeus Woods

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

— Claes Oldenburg

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

— Azzedine Alaia

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior…

— Danny Rimer

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

— Leon Krier

Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that.

— Jeff Perry

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is…

— Charlotte Bunch

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

— Hugh Dalton

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the…

— Charles Francis Richter

What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like…

— Alex Grey

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that…

— Barry Schuler

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the…

— Sydney Pollack

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space…

— Brian Foote

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There…

— Kenzo Tange

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes."…

— Ayn Rand

“Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in…

— Jane Jacobs

In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a…

— Donald Judd

It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that…

— Diego Klattenhoff

Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -…

— James Frain

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects.…

— Peter Marino

I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in…

— Massimo Vignelli

“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are…

— Christopher Hitchens

The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure.…

— Christine Jennings

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

— William Shakespeare

Effective steps must be taken toward reforming the structure

— Ahmed Hashim

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

— A. L. Rowse

“architecture is open sources beyond the direct control of the architect.”

— Jeremy Till

Never be a prisoner of your past. Be the architect of your future.

— Anonymous

Brands must become architects of community.

— Simon Mainwaring

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

— Louis Sullivan

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

— Walt Whitman