Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. — Peter Eisenman
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. — Peter Eisenman
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used… — Toyo Ito
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. — Twyla Tharp
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in… — Sufjan Stevens
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses — Thomas Heatherwick
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller. — Curtis W. Fentress
People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius… — Curtis W. Fentress
There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of… — Curtis W. Fentress
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress
It takes a great client to create great architecture. — Curtis W. Fentress
Architecture is art, nothing else. — Philip Johnson
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. — Philip Johnson
The future of architecture is culture. — Philip Johnson
It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy — Fabio Novembre
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. — Moshe Safdie
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. — Moshe Safdie
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. — Moshe Safdie
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. — Moshe Safdie
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art.… — Peter York
I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just… — Pipilotti Rist
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who… — Pablo Picasso
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley

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