Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. — Arthur Erickson
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. — Arthur Erickson
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. — Arthur Erickson
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. — Zaha Hadid
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. — Zaha Hadid
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. — Zaha Hadid
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. — Zaha Hadid
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the… — Zaha Hadid
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort… — Zaha Hadid
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the… — Ernest Hemingway
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast… — Victor Hugo
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. — John Irving
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. — Helmut Jahn
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. — Helmut Jahn
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. — Arne Jacobsen
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. — Arne Jacobsen
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they… — Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. — Philip Johnson
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. — Philip Johnson
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. — Quincy Jones
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. — Louis Kahn
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. — Louis Kahn
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn

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