Architecture Quote by Arne Jacobsen

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

— Arne Jacobsen

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

— Bjarke Ingels

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

— Frank Gehry

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

— John Ruskin

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

— Philip Johnson

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

— Anonymous

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

But then architects don't build their own houses.

— Damien Hirst

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

— Oscar Niemeyer

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

— Christiana Figueres