Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. — Arthur Erickson
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last — Roger Scruton
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior
L’architecture est art de suggestion. — Daniel Pennac
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The… — Swami Vivekananda
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical… — Michael Tilson Thomas
Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul.… — Charles Spurgeon
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that… — Richard Meier
An important work of architecture will create polemics. — Richard Meier
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up -… — Renzo Piano
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi
In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always… — Tadao Ando
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct… — Barbara Kruger
The room is the beginning of architecture. — Louis Kahn
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task… — Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is an expression of values. — Norman Foster
The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. — Samuel
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel
I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. — Hayden Christensen
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. — Trevor Paglen

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