Architectural Quotes

104 quotes by 80 authors

In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing… — David Chipperfield
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I… — Peter Zumthor
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. — Peter Zumthor
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when… — Freeman Dyson
Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic… — Don Edward Beck
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. — Oscar Niemeyer
I'm not an architectural composer. — Harrison Birtwistle
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature… — Nicole Krauss
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play… — Rem Koolhaas
In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because itâ€™s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams… — Tom Ford
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller. — Curtis W. Fentress
I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality.… — Moshe Safdie
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression… — Lewis Mumford
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to… — Mervyn Peake
If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that… — Alberto Giacometti
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of… — H P Lovecraft
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of… — Robert Moses
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph… — Jonathan Nolan
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of… — Luis Barragan
I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was… — Ice Cube

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