Architecture Quotes · Page 29

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

— Alvar Aalto

“Architect without Pencil is like Rock-star without Guitar.”

— Vinayak Hanchate

Tradition is a challenge to innovation..

— Alvaro Siza Vieira

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

— Alexander Jackson Davis

I am always searching for more light and space.

— Santiago Calatrava

Dressmaking is the architecture of movement

— Pierre Balmain

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

— Rob Pike

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

— Santiago Calatrava

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

— Roger Scruton

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...

— Oscar Wilde

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

— Richard Serra

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

— James Polshek

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

— Chance the Rapper

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

— Samuel

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my…

— Robert Motherwell

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about…

— Peter Zumthor

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest…

— George E Hartman

“For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose "design statement" was to stuff an…

— Mark Helprin

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people…

— Pablo Picasso

Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation…

— Pranav Mistry

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's…

— Barbara Kruger

“I am opposed to Naperville. It's all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class…

— Robyn Bachar

So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece…

— John Ruskin

One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we…

— Christine Jennings

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but…

— John Hockenberry

“It could be said that Borluut was in love with the town. But we only have one heart for all our loves,…

— Georges Rodenbach

“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and…

— Monique Truong

“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

Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to…

— Elizabeth Diller

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

— Massimo Vignelli

The practical man build's a strong structure from the stone's thrown at him

— Paul John II N Caballero

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

— John Ruskin

I grew up in southeast London and there's a lot of brutalist architecture.

— Kate Herron

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

— Steve McConnell

God is the architect of the event; you are the interpreter of the moment.

— Steve Maraboli

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

— Ayn Rand

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

— Daniel Libeskind

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

— Louis Kahn