Architecture Quotes · Page 48

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

— David Carson

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or…

— Martin Filler

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology…

— Kenzo Tange

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an…

— El Lissitzky

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

— Zaha Hadid

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name…

— Russell Lynes

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

— Robin Boyd

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage…

— Alan Moore

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need…

— Magnus Larsson

“Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the…

— Rowan Moore

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I…

— Max Walker

The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do…

— Jean Nouvel

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to…

— Brad Pitt

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an…

— Robin Boyd

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by…

— Herbert Muschamp

“For a brief period of time the American electric-sign industry looked beyond its most immediate market and collaborated with store designers and…

— Philip Di Lemme

“Architecture of Time       Technical civilization is man’s conquest of space. It is a triumph frequently achieved by sacrificing an…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to…

— Will Gompertz

Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of…

— Walt Whitman

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as…

— Anonymous

“As a subject of behavioral study, nest architecture offers an appealing feature that practically no other behavior offer; namely, the nest is…

— Walter Tschinkel

“The old house had a thousand doors in it. All old houses do. You can see them if you know how to…

— Michael Montoure

“A choice architect has the responsibility for organizing the context in which people make decisions.”

— Richard H. Thaler

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

— Moshe Safdie

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

— Jimenez Lai

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been…

— Jillian Hervey

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

— John Mercer Johnson

I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.

— Ann Widdecombe

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

— Antoine Predock

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people…

— Peter Clewes

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

— Ernest Dimnet

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all…

— Janet Echelman

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

— Hayden Christensen

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

— George Santayana