Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't - and don't - live in a vacuum. To… — Unknown Author
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become… — Charlotte Bunch
Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's… — Zaha Hadid
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that,… — Samuel Mockbee
Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together,… — Joshua Prince-Ramus
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be… — Renzo Piano
When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and… — Unknown Author
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power. — Claudio Silvestrin
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm… — Jorge Luis Borges
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not… — Eduardo Souto de Moura
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper. — Alvar Aalto
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. — Alvar Aalto
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture — Alvar Aalto
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears… — Arnold Schoenberg
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is… — Thom Mayne
I don't believe in morality in architecture. — Michael Graves
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. — Unknown Author
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them. — Norman Foster
Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and… — Unknown Author
But the building's identity resided in the ornament. — Louis Sullivan
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear

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