Architecture Quote by Russell Lynes

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

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range…

— Michael Ende

“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly, and the…

— John Updike

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

— Frank Gehry

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement -…

— Martin Filler

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the…

— David Chipperfield

“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

Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or house.

— George Clarke

As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Juhani Pallasmaa

The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a different kind. Builders in the…

— Hillary Clinton

If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter…

— Peter Zumthor