Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

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
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a… — Thom Mayne
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal... — Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly… — Unknown Author
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme
If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as… — Barry Boehm
I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress, — Madeleine Vionnet
Dressmaking is the architecture of movement — Pierre Balmain
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon… — George Frisbie Hoar
While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express… — Witold Rybczynski
At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I… — Denise Scott Brown
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. — Minoru Yamasaki
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? — Arthur Erickson
Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you… — Jakob Nielsen
As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are… — Jesse James Garrett
In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in… — John Hockenberry
Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones. — Jen-Hsun Huang
It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we… — Joshua Prince-Ramus
It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things. — Joshua Prince-Ramus
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of… — Oscar Niemeyer
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is… — Ben Nicholson
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't… — Ben Nicholson
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several… — Charles Jencks
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer

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