Architecture Quote by John Updike

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

“We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening inside of…

— John Green

“Architecture domesticates limitless space and enables us to inhabit it [...]”

— Juhani Pallasmaa

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

“Draw a floor plan of the house you lived in as a child, including all the floors.”

— Jean J. Jenson

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

— John Updike

“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

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also…

— Ellen Gallagher

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture…

— Russell Lynes

“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put…

— Bill Hillier

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

— Tadao Ando

We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at,…

— Will Gompertz