Architecture Quotes · Page 44

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other's culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.

— Boney Kapoor

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant…

— Paul Goldberger

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

— Cate Blanchett

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really…

— Eero Saarinen

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

— Marisa Tomei

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

— Luis Barragan

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

— Adolf Loos

There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at…

— Eric Dane

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable.…

— Nick Clegg

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and…

— Tim Matheson

The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered…

— Thomas Jefferson

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical…

— Jean Nouvel

My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and…

— Catherine Stock

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It…

— Frank Gehry

“No foreign architect of stature, such as I. M. Pei, resides in Japan. Foreign architects come to Japan on short-term contracts, erect…

— Alex Kerr

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the…

— Gustav Stickley

Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that…

— Jonathon Keats

What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been…

— Jan Morris

I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where…

— Doug Aitken

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged…

— Shane Carruth

All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern…

— Ferdinand Foch

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

— E. B. White

To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures.

— Thierry Mugler

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits,

— Steven Holl

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

— Ursus Wehrli

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking

— Jacque Fresco

The architecture in Florence is light years ahead of anywhere I've ever been in terms of beauty and design.

— Evan Mock

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised…

— Renzo Piano

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

“Fine architecture is man’s tribute to the land it has been built on. So are the untouched, pristine lands he preserves for…

— Tom Baldwin

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

— Marshall McLuhan

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of…

— Richard Neutra

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits