Architecture Quotes · Page 38

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

— Marshall McLuhan

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

— Peter Zumthor

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

— Rem Koolhaas

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first…

— St. Lucia

“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller”

— Cedric Price

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

— Ai Weiwei

I'm a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens.…

— Limahl

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure.…

— Rem Koolhaas

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous,…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind,…

— William McDonough

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense…

— Paul Goldberger

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin…

— Chip Kidd

While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and…

— Witold Rybczynski

“The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the…

— Adolf Loos

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine…

— Andre Malraux

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality…

— Jonathan Meades

“--Gardens, not buildings-- Great projects start out feeling like buildings. There are architects, materials, staff, rigid timelines, permits, engineers, a structure. It…

— Seth Godin

While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns…

— Lewis Mumford

“The grand temples of Greece were built either of stone or of marble. As a general rule they are set on a…

— Nancy R E Meugens Bell

Architects and urbanists are fascinated with cities that are shrinking, like the Rust Belt cities. Or, alternatively, we are fascinated with the…

— Keller Easterling

The rest of America, with some small exceptions, has been bulldozed and rebuilt and then bulldozed and rebuilt again. Our places have…

— David Simon

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

— Peter Zumthor

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

— Mario Botta

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

— Richard Rogers

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

— H. P. Blavatsky

“Don’t picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.”

— John Eldredge

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

— Ma Yansong

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

“Why did you decide to be an architect?” “I didn’t know it then. But it’s because I’ve never believed in God.”

— Ayn Rand

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and…

— Tadao Ando

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

— Steven Holl

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

— Santiago Calatrava

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter…

— Henry Kravis

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

— Parker Stevenson

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the…

— Philip Johnson