Architecture Quote by Harry Seidler

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and…

— Tadao Ando

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

— Fabio Novembre

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

— Tadao Ando

Why alhough the Renaissance eventuall became a Euope wide intellectual and artistic movement, and why did it developed first and most distinctively in Italy?…

— Brandon McCaw

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

— Roger Scruton

“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its earliest days…

— Peter Frankopan

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

— Richard Rogers

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes…

— Martin Filler

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

— Paolo Gentiloni

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

— Alvar Aalto

The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs.…

— Robert Briffault