Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. — Tadao Ando
Architecture is definitely a political act. — Peter Eisenman
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning — Kenzo Tange
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful… — Kenzo Tange
In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious,… — Peter Zumthor
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. — Peter Zumthor
Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a… — Tom Ford
To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures. — Thierry Mugler
Our collaboration with Datapipe on a managed hybrid cloud solution for AWS removes many of the common barriers to cloud adoption. It offers customers the… — John Landy
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony — Renzo Piano
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down… — Kenny Smith
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but… — Annabelle Selldorf
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something… — Annabelle Selldorf
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading -… — Annabelle Selldorf
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. — Annabelle Selldorf
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of… — Julie Mehretu
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. — Winston Damarillo
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in… — Bill Mollison
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos. — Tom Kenyon
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate… — Maya Lin
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be. — Steven Holl
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. — Daryl Hall
If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a bright opportunity to… — Colleen Jones
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. — Marc Newson

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