Architecture Quote by Iain McGilchrist

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire,…

— Alan Weisman

Architecture is invention.

— Oscar Niemeyer

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

— Harry Seidler

“ Roman engineering The Romans accomplished amazing feats of engineering as they built roads, bridges, and aqueducts (bridges for water conduits) across their empire.…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

— Oscar Niemeyer

“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out…

— Henry Spencer

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

— Dave Barry

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

— Annabelle Selldorf

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music…

— Michael Graves

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying.…

— Santiago Calatrava

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

— Margaret Mead