Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. — Bernard Tschumi
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could… — Amy Waldman
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than… — Ada Louise Huxtable
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act… — Ada Louise Huxtable
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary… — John Herschel
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt… — Goldwin Smith
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is… — Claudio Magris
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were… — Walter Russell
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. — Malcolm Miller
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. — Paul Goldberger
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. — Alvar Aalto
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions:… — Henry Wotton
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Unknown Author
Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror. — Louis Sullivan
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no… — Joseph Addison
Architecture is the work of nations — John Ruskin
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass
My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood. — Ettore Sottsass
Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try… — Nancy Lancaster
I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the… — Van Day Truex
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. — Jaime Lerner
It's not my duty as an architect to look at it — Zaha Hadid

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