Architecture Quotes · Page 34

My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me…

— Moshe Safdie

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

— Douglas Crockford

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

— Stephen Gardiner

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

— George Ade

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

— Le Corbusier

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

— Peter Gabriel

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

— Juhani Pallasmaa

I've got a furniture range with my wife, and I want to get into designing hotels and restaurants as well. We've got…

— Sol Campbell

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very…

— Robert Irwin

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many…

— Jim Woodring

“(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their…

— Roy Landau

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting…

— David Chipperfield

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even…

— Ruta Sepetys

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste.…

— Robert Moses

For me, architects and film directors operate similarly. They are practical. As an architect, you know what you want in the conception…

— Apichatpong Weerasethakul

“To achieve this his team had a sophisticated stress testing environment. When they wanted to improve the architecture they would first improve…

— Kent Beck

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The…

— Walter Gropius

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. Before the invention of navigational instruments, a beautiful lady was carved on the…

— Denise Scott Brown

“We will figure something out that seems relatively interesting and … spend some time in Northern Japan, talking to the master about…

— Adam Lashinsky

The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to…

— David Rockwell

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in…

— Patti Smith

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

— John Ruskin

“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end…

— Louis Kahn

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this…

— John Pawson

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

— Trevor Paglen

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

— James Polshek

“A person who designs buildings is called an architect, but in the case of Prufrock Prep a better term might be 'depressed…

— Lemony Snicket

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect…

— George D Boardman

“The better the story, the more engaged your users will be. Structure is how story engages the human brain”

— Donna Lichaw

“...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.”

— Winifred Gallagher

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

— Voltaire

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

— Will Self

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

— Ronda Rousey

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not…

— Thom Mayne

We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

— Jeff Fortenberry

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

— Ludwig von Mises

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters…

— Roisin Murphy