Architecture Quote by Charles Jencks

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction,…

— David Chipperfield

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range…

— Michael Ende

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

— Bill Henson

“The composition of these rooms represents the basic intention behind my design: simplicity, essentiality and openness.”

— Dieter Rams

My dwelling was small, and I could hardly entertain an echo in it; but it seemed larger for being a single apartment and remote…

— Anonymous

I truly believe that the story behind 'The Room' is more fascinating and bizarre than 'The Room.'

— Greg Sestero

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being…

— David Adjaye

“The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.”

— Patrick Ness

“Houses seem to remember,' said he. 'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.”

— Emma Frances Dawson