Architecture Quotes · Page 57

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

— Roger Scruton

“I shouldn’t need to explain why building something without any structure is a bad idea.”

— Anonymous

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

— Frank Gehry

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

— Arne Jacobsen

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's…

— Hampton Fancher

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

— Frank Gehry

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that…

— Philip Johnson

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I started off in architecture, and I just couldn't fit into the vibe there. I just felt more at home in the…

— Larkin Grimm

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A.…

— Moby

The audiences are really great. I really love it over there. I love Europe, period. Oh my God, all the architecture and…

— Beth Hart

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make…

— Renzo Piano

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."…

— Rick Riordan

“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a…

— Alain de Botton

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of…

— Frank Stella

“I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

— David Chipperfield

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert…

— Dan Brown

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

— Julia Child

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

— David Chipperfield

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

— Alain de Botton

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my…

— Hussein Chalayan

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

— Ma Yansong

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

— Glenn Murcutt

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

— Brian Webb

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope…

— Cesar Pelli

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

— John Ruskin

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

— Frank Gehry

Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.

— Elizabeth Diller

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

— Jeff Bezos

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

— Jimenez Lai

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else…

— Annabelle Selldorf

The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.

— Ma Yansong

“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.”

— Kristen Wagner

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

— Ivan Chtcheglov

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

— Philip Johnson

My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare…

— Rick Riordan

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the…

— Alvar Aalto

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

— Frank Gehry