Architecture Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in the university.…

— Keller Easterling

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images…

— Ma Yansong

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in…

— Mario Botta

The architecture in Florence is light years ahead of anywhere I've ever been in terms of beauty and design.

— Evan Mock

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

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the…

— Neri Oxman

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody…

— Thom Mayne

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My…

— Jean Nouvel

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds…

— Joe Elliott

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.

— Elizabeth Diller

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time…

— I. M. Pei

“The high school had been built in the seventies and reeked of it. What had been considered sleek and modern had weathered like an…

— Harlan Coben