Architecture Quotes · Page 36

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

— Louis Kahn

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

— Eli Broad

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

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

— Richard Rogers

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Through the mind, we create a prison of suffering and then forget that we are the architect and that we ourselves hold…

— Senoraroy

I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a…

— Alan Menken

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

— Malcolm Miller

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had…

— Alan Bennett

Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product…

— Clayton Christensen

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture…

— Clayton M. Christensen

I think there has only ever been one member of the Federal Parliament from either side found to have been corrupt in…

— George Brandis

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development…

— Jonathan Hickman

I think we need to question this idea that architecture is about making buildings. Actually, a building is about the most expensive…

— Suman Rai

A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration…

— Bret Stephens

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we…

— Alain de Botton

“There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern…

— Georgius Agricola

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with…

— Francis Bacon

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one…

— Rajneesh

“To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the…

— Hardeep Singh Kohli

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to…

— Christian de Portzamparc

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

— Antoine Predock

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be…

— Sandra Bullock

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

— Roger Scruton

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

— Toyo Ito

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

— Anonymous

May every man is not the architect of his own fortune; but every man is the architect of his own character.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

— Rem Koolhaas

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was…

— Howard Hodgkin

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act -…

— Thom Mayne

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

— Christopher Wren

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life…

— Hill Harper

I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.

— Kim Gordon