Architecture Quotes · Page 37

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

— Tom Kenyon

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and…

— Oksana Baiul

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

— Santiago Calatrava

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

— David Chipperfield

“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.”

— Melvyn Conway

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

— Michael Graves

In writing 'The Humans,' I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture.

— Stephen Karam

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

— Ian Mckellen

Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that…

— Daniel Libeskind

The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and…

— Julie Mehretu

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether…

— George Lucas

I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the…

— Louis Kahn

“British philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s eighteenth-century conception of the Panopticon, a building design he believed would allow institutions to effectively control human behavior.”

— Glenn Greenwald

I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to…

— C. J. Wilson

A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one…

— Narendra Modi

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of…

— Gae Aulenti

Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably…

— Jan Morris

If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very…

— William Morris

I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly…

— Rem Koolhaas

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it…

— Donald Judd

I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,…

— Lebbeus Woods

“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists…

— Max Perutz

Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they…

— David Byrne

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…

— Arnold Schoenberg

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for…

— Diane Dreher

“It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]”

— Owen Hatherley

It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know…

— Thomas Heatherwick

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

— Rob Chapman

“Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped,…

— Judith Clancy

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

— Bjarke Ingels

If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very…

— Paolo Soleri

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

— Santiago Calatrava

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's…

— Zaha Hadid

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

— Henry Giroux

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

— Eduardo Souto de Moura

As a kid I wanted to be a vet; I wanted to be an architect. I was and still am such a…

— Sophie Cookson

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such…

— Joseph Addison

I'm definitely not good at architecture or design, but I feel like I have people in my life who give me helpful…

— Rachel Sennott

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

— Theodor Schwenk