Architecture Quotes · Page 53

“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.”

— Jomo Kenyatta

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

— Arizona Muse

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into…

— Bjarke Ingels

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

— Alvar Aalto

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

— Lebbeus Woods

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be…

— Eero Saarinen

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

— Steven Holl

Speaking as a parent, I don't think parents think all the time about structures. I know from conversations I've had with other…

— Nicky Morgan

“The grand purpose of the classically built environment, ultimately, is to propel us out of our finite selves and into the limitlessness…

— Kristen Wagner

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word…

— Antoine Predock

A year before I met Mark Brydon - he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko…

— Roisin Murphy

Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I…

— Trudie Styler

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new…

— Art Garfunkel

I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked…

— Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Your mind is the matrix, the door will lead you to the architect. The architect is you. You're the key maker, you…

— Jeremy Limn

The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose…

— Lawrence Lessig

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art.…

— Charles Jencks

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art…

— Martin Filler

“...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of…

— Dostoyevsky

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an…

— George R.R. Martin

“Today I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality. Having a system architect is the most important…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“An admirer of architects Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, Mr. Vignelli moved to New York from Italy in the mid-1960s…

— Anonymous

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

— Renzo Piano

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

— Larry Wall

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

— Neri Oxman

“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a…

— G.K. Chesterton

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

— Philip Treacy

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and…

— Denise Scott Brown

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

— Christopher Alexander

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

— Jake Barton

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

— Jaime Lerner

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

— Pranav Mistry

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth…

— Rem Koolhaas