Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of… — Harry Seidler
We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety.… — Jean Plaidy
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the… — Thom Mayne
Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves… — Jeffrey Zeldman
One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone. — Alfred Leslie Rowse
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. — Jay Chiat
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why… — Helmut Jahn
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. — Helmut Jahn
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. — Helmut Jahn
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments… — Marilyn Hacker
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of… — Rebecca Solnit
Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper… — Alain de Botton
Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect… — David Chipperfield
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of… — Gustav Stickley
So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would… — Linus Torvalds
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture — Parker Stevenson
I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue… — James Maslow
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. — Philip Warren Anderson
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture… — Tadao Ando
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. — Stephen Gardiner
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard,… — Stephen Sprouse
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be… — Ernest L. Boyer
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. — Janet Echelman

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