Architecture famous quotes

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
-- A. L. Rowse

#Stones #Might #Architecture

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Style #Unapologetic #Architecture

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Creative #Synthesis #Architecture

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp

#Sarcastic #Art #Architecture

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
-- Aldo Rossi

#Cities #Architecture #Study

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
-- Aldo Rossi

#Technique #Architecture #Surprise

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Architecture #Sin #Perceive

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
-- Alex Winter

#Play #Architecture #Novel

I am but an architectural composer.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

#Architecture #Composer

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

#Architecture #Building #Architect

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Civilization #Culture #Architecture

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Cities #Architecture #Problem

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Men #Architecture

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Ties #Earth #Architecture

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Giving #Tasks #Architecture

Tradition is a challenge to innovation..
-- Alvaro Siza Vieira

#Challenges #Innovation #Architecture

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber

#Passion #Able #Architecture

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Architecture #Mythology

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Eye #Secret #Architecture

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.
-- Antoine Predock

#Long #Landscape #Architecture

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Color #Architecture #Planes

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Order #Architecture #Building

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#May #Tasks #Architecture

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Art #Architecture #Building

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Long #Done #Architecture

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Architecture

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Voice #Way #Architecture

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
-- Arthur Erickson

#Doe #Spirit #Architecture

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Art #Enemy #Architecture

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
-- Ayn Rand

#Integrity #Men #Architecture

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Perfect #Architecture #Boundaries

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
-- Barry Mann

#College #Years #Architecture

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
-- Ben Nicholson

#West #Temples #Architecture

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
-- Benjamin Haydon

#Artist #England #Architecture

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
-- Bernard Rudofsky

#Art #Experts #Architecture

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Architecture #Building #Cathedrals

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Regret #Father #Architecture

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Views #Architecture #Stage

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.
-- Bertrand Delanoe

#Cities #Facts #Architecture

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Logic #Architecture #Mathematics

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
-- Brad Pitt

#Design #Furniture #Architecture

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.
-- Cameron Sinclair

#Architecture #Internet #Incredibles

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
-- Carlo Scarpa

#Looks #Architecture #Feels

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
-- Caroline Wozniacki

#Design #Architecture

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Art #Architecture #Painting

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.
-- Cedric Price

#Architecture #Problem #Problem Solvers

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
-- Cedric Price

#Moving #Medicine #Architecture

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
-- Cedric Price

#Architecture #Environment #Distortion

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
-- Charles Jencks

#Art #Believe #Architecture

Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Beautiful #Soul #Architecture

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
-- Charlie Rose

#Directors #Architecture #Film

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
-- Christopher Nolan

#Jobs #Architecture #Filmmaking

Architecture aims at Eternity
-- Christopher Wren

#Architecture #Eternity #Aim

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
-- Christopher Wren

#Christian #Opinion #Architecture

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
-- Clara Schumann

#Art #Imagination #Architecture

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.
-- Claudio Silvestrin

#Beautiful #Giving #Architecture

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Matter #Architecture

I like the architecture of lingerie.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Lingerie #Architecture

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
-- Curtis W. Fentress

#Real #Details #Architecture

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be
-- Curtis W. Fentress

#Architecture #Building #Should

It takes a great client to create great architecture.
-- Curtis W. Fentress

#Clients #Architecture

But then architects don't build their own houses.
-- Damien Hirst

#House #Architecture #Architect

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
-- Dan Brown

#Ciphers #Likes #Architecture

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
-- Daniel Burnham

#Noble #Planning #Architecture

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Meaningful #Bad Ass #Architecture

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Cities #Humanity #Architecture

L’architecture est art de suggestion.
-- Daniel Pennac

#Art #Suggestions #Architecture

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
-- Daryl Hall

#House #Antiques #Architecture

For me, architecture is a social act,
-- David Adjaye

#Architecture #Social

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
-- David Chipperfield

#Differences #Architecture #Good And Bad

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 architect isn’t trusted.
-- David Chipperfield

#Want #Pay #Architecture

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
-- David Chipperfield

#Levels #Ridiculous #Architecture

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
-- David Chipperfield

#Interesting #Balls #Architecture

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
-- David Chipperfield

#Age #Trying #Architecture

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
-- David Chipperfield

#Architecture #Britain #Lasting

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.
-- Dean Koontz

#House #Architecture #Ghost

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
-- Delia Ephron

#Architecture #Los Angeles #Building

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.
-- Denise Scott Brown

#People #Architecture #Attractive

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
-- Denise Scott Brown

#Analysis #Architecture #Sociology

At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.
-- Denise Scott Brown

#Mother #Feelings #Architecture

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,
-- Donald Judd

#Art #Architecture #Isolation

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
-- Edith Wharton

#May #Architecture #Sanity

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
-- Edward Steichen

#Done #Architecture #Consideration

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
-- Edwin Lutyens

#Design #Architecture #Architect

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
-- Emilio Ambasz

#Answers #Next #Architecture

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
-- Emilio Ambasz

#School #Sublime #Architecture

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Literature #Architecture #Decoration

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
-- Fabio Novembre

#Architecture #Difficult #Contemporary

Architecture is petrified music.
-- Felix Schelling

#Architecture

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
-- Francis Picabia

#New York #Cities #Architecture

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
-- Frank Gehry

#Men #Architecture

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
-- Frank Gehry

#Eye #Architecture #Great Men

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
-- Frank Gehry

#Chicago #Architecture

Space is the breath of art.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Art #Space #Architecture

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Government #Architecture #Results

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Badass #Bad Ass #Architecture

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspiration #Way #Architecture

Architecture in general is frozen music.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

#Design #Frozen #Architecture

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
-- Gates McFadden

#Gardening #Architecture #Obsessive

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
-- Geoffrey Jellicoe

#Who We Are #Architecture #Remember