Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. — Roman Coppola
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. — Catherine Deneuve
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story… — William Devane
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords… — Jay Griffiths
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. — Michael Graves
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future… — Michael Arad
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to… — Juan Goytisolo
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. — Stephen Gardiner
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. — Stephen Gardiner
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner
What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking -… — Tony Hale
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very… — Arne Jacobsen
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. — Peter Zumthor
Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want… — Peter Zumthor
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play… — Rem Koolhaas
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is… — Peter Zumthor
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. — Peter Zumthor
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called… — Sebastian Bach
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. — Leon Krier
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides,… — Leon Krier
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be… — Leon Krier
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects.… — Leon Krier
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. — Peter Eisenman
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' — Peter Eisenman

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