Architecture Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social…

— Howard Mansfield

The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

— Mark Twain

“It's foolish to trump up stories about how primitive humans built pyramids, stone henge or other ancient giant structures. The only logical explanation is...those…

— Toba Beta

Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's…

— Peter Marino

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

— Renzo Piano

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions,…

— Nora Ephron

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time…

— I. M. Pei

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

— Terry Pratchett

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in…

— Eugene S. Ferguson

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe