Architectural Quotes

104 quotes by 84 authors

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural. — Michael Heizer
I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations. — Robert Mayer
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book… — Debra Ginsberg
My mother knew if you bought a couple of really good architectural outfits and put your money into accessories, you could create a million different… — Iris Apfel
My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender. — Nick Park
Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed. — Paul Vixie
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes… — Kathy Acker
My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood. — Ettore Sottsass
It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture… — Nancy Lancaster
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods
I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me… — Lebbeus Woods
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren
The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world. — Thomas Heatherwick
Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this… — Cameron Sinclair
As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities. — Magnus Larsson
The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its… — Vinton Cerf
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for… — Hernando Cortes
Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they… — Cedric Price
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement… — Cedric Price
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner

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