Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is… — Zelda Fichandler
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement — Jean Nouvel
The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and… — Aga Khan IV
The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time. — Antoine Predock
Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'. — Cedric Price
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible. — Cedric Price
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive. — Cedric Price
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment. — Cedric Price
Architecture is politics. — Mitchell Kapor
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. — Stephen Gardiner
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. — Robert Palmer
People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that came from a… — Christian Louboutin
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. — Alain Robert
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. — Goldwin Smith
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still… — Larry Wall
I have no requirements for a style of architecture. — Michael Graves
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also… — Dean Koontz
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it… — Leonardo da Vinci
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you… — Dan Rice
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind… — Antoine Predock
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. — Joseph Altuzarra
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. — Oscar Niemeyer
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. — Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to… — Oscar Niemeyer
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and… — Tadao Ando

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