Architecture Quotes · Page 27

“A New Blueprint: Time to Renovate the Architecture of Our Lives”

— Arianna Huffington

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

— Alvar Aalto

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

— Curtis W. Fentress

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

— Jeremy Gutsche

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

— Bernard Rudofsky

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

— Philip Johnson

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

— Anonymous

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

— Peter Eisenman

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

— Thom Mayne

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

— Neri Oxman

“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

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

— Christopher Alexander

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

— Robin Boyd

What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the…

— Ma Yansong

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually…

— Tadao Ando

If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would…

— Pietro Belluschi

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a…

— Ma Yansong

We Are The True Architects Of Our Lives. Only We As Individuals And Individuals Alone, Carry Within Us, The Inner Ability To…

— Anonymous

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture,…

— Donna Tartt

Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to…

— Robin Boyd

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings,…

— Harry Seidler

Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many…

— Renzo Piano

I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500…

— Zhang Xin

It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although…

— Claudio Magris

“I heard a story once in the Orient about two architects who went to see the Buddha. They had run out of…

— Colin Higgins

Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that…

— Hisham Matar

“First a small team writes a small system. Then they find the natural fracture lines and divide the system into relatively independent…

— Kent Beck

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly…

— Neri Oxman

If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What…

— Jonathan Hale

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

— Mark Twain

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

— Moshe Safdie

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

— Appius Claudius Caecus

“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.”

— Norbert Wiener

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

— Thom Mayne

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

— John Ruskin

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

— Donald Hall

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

— Wade Guyton