Architecture Quote by John Ruskin

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every…

— Christian de Portzamparc

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

— Grant Shapps

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

— Edwin Arnold

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental…

— John Ruskin

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,

— Peter Zumthor

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an…

— Santiago Calatrava

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

— Paul Goldberger

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

— Renzo Piano

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is…

— John Updike