Quotes about Architecture

Architecture begins where engineering ends. Votes: 6

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. Votes: 6

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Votes: 5

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Votes: 5

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Votes: 4

Whatever good things we build end up building us. Votes: 4

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Votes: 4

Architecture is politics. Votes: 3

Architecture is invention. Votes: 3

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. Votes: 3

Architecture aims at Eternity Votes: 3

Architecture must make connections Votes: 3

Architecture is art, nothing else. Votes: 3

Architecture is not about form Votes: 3

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man! Votes: 3

Architecture trumps licensing any time. Votes: 3

Architecture theory is very interesting. Votes: 3

Architecture is definitely a political act. Votes: 3

Architecture is an expression of values. Votes: 3

Architecture is the work of nations Votes: 3

Architecture in general is frozen music. Votes: 3

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Votes: 3

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space Votes: 3

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space. Votes: 3

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. Votes: 3

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. Votes: 3

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music. Votes: 3

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force. Votes: 3

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Votes: 3

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. Votes: 3

Architecture is about public space held by buildings. Votes: 3

Architecture is not about space but about time. Votes: 3

A house is a machine for living in. Votes: 3

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. Votes: 3

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts. Votes: 3

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. Votes: 3

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline. Votes: 3

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts, Votes: 3

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance. Votes: 3

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. Votes: 3

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. Votes: 3

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. Votes: 3

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Votes: 3

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. Votes: 3

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. Votes: 3

Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline. Votes: 3

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. Votes: 3

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. Votes: 3

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. Votes: 3

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.] Votes: 3

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement Votes: 3

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion. Votes: 3

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Votes: 3

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are. Votes: 3

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms. Votes: 3

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. Votes: 3

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. Votes: 3

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. Votes: 3

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Votes: 3

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves. Votes: 3

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'. Votes: 3

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. Votes: 3

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. Votes: 3

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. Votes: 3

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names. Votes: 3

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. Votes: 3

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment. Votes: 3

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. Votes: 3

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. Votes: 3

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. Votes: 3

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine. Votes: 3

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. Votes: 3

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet Votes: 3

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge. Votes: 3

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.. Votes: 3

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. Votes: 3

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. Votes: 3

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. Votes: 3

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. Votes: 3

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. Votes: 3

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power. Votes: 3

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. Votes: 3

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams. Votes: 3

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. Votes: 3

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine Votes: 3

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. Votes: 3

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless Votes: 3

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way. Votes: 3

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks Votes: 3

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify. Votes: 3

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future. Votes: 3

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. Votes: 3

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up. Votes: 3

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses Votes: 3

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use. Votes: 3

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. Votes: 3

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. Votes: 3

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. Votes: 3

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. Votes: 3

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. Votes: 3

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. Votes: 3

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. Votes: 3

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea. Votes: 3

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony Votes: 3

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. Votes: 3

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. Votes: 3

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. Votes: 3

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. Votes: 3

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. Votes: 3

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. Votes: 3

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically. Votes: 3

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. Votes: 3

Architecture is not created, it is discovered "“ the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them. Votes: 3

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. Votes: 3

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. Votes: 3

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. Votes: 3

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. Votes: 3

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. Votes: 3

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. Votes: 3

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. Votes: 3

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth Votes: 3

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. Votes: 3

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. Votes: 3

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Votes: 3

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Votes: 3

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. Votes: 3

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me. Votes: 3

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it, Votes: 3

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be. Votes: 3

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. Votes: 3

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall. Votes: 3

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better. Votes: 3

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. Votes: 3

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism? Votes: 3

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Votes: 3

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. Votes: 3

The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build. Votes: 3

Architecture is petrified music. Votes: 2

Architecture is crystallized music. Votes: 2

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. Votes: 2

I call architecture frozen music. Votes: 1

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Votes: 1

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. Votes: 1

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. Votes: 1

A bicycle shed is a building Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture Votes: 1

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value Votes: 1

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Votes: 1

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. Votes: 1

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. Votes: 1

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. Votes: 1

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. Votes: 1

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Votes: 1

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. Votes: 1

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. Votes: 1

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind Votes: 1

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer. Votes: 1

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction Votes: 1

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. Votes: 1

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. Votes: 1

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life Votes: 1

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. Votes: 1

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order Votes: 1

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise for we are dependent on the spirit of our time Votes: 1

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel Votes: 1

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each thing is due according to it's nature Votes: 1

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. Votes: 1

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs Votes: 1

Good architecture lets nature in. Votes: 0

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. Votes: 0

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. Votes: 0

Dressmaking is the architecture of movement Votes: 0

L’architecture est art de suggestion. Votes: 0

Life is more important than architecture. Votes: 0

The future of architecture is culture. Votes: 0

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization. Votes: 0

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent Votes: 0

I like the architecture of lingerie. Votes: 0

I see music as fluid architecture. Votes: 0

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. Votes: 0

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture Votes: 0

All architecture is great architecture after sunset. Votes: 0

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. Votes: 0

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. Votes: 0

Each new situation requires a new architecture. Votes: 0

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror. Votes: 0

For me, architecture is a social act, Votes: 0

I don't believe in morality in architecture. Votes: 0

The room is the beginning of architecture. Votes: 0

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall. Votes: 0

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. Votes: 0

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. Votes: 0

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. Votes: 0

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Votes: 0

An important work of architecture will create polemics. Votes: 0

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Votes: 0

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. Votes: 0

I think architecture has to be a gift. Votes: 0

Less is more, in prose as in architecture. Votes: 0

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. Votes: 0

We have to base architecture on the environment. Votes: 0

All real education is the architecture of the soul. Votes: 0

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness Votes: 0

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. Votes: 0

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.' Votes: 0

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone. Votes: 0

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. Votes: 0

I have no requirements for a style of architecture. Votes: 0

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture. Votes: 0

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude Votes: 0

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. Votes: 0

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. Votes: 0

It takes a great client to create great architecture. Votes: 0

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that. Votes: 0

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy Votes: 0

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. Votes: 0

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. Votes: 0

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. Votes: 0

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center. Votes: 0

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. Votes: 0

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. Votes: 0

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. Votes: 0

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. Votes: 0

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? Votes: 0

I see architecture as a form of communication over time. Votes: 0

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Votes: 0

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. Votes: 0

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. Votes: 0

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. Votes: 0

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle. Votes: 0

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. Votes: 0

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive. Votes: 0

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Votes: 0

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... Votes: 0

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture. Votes: 0

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. Votes: 0

Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. Votes: 0

I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been. Votes: 0

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. Votes: 0

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. Votes: 0

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know. Votes: 0

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. Votes: 0

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. Votes: 0

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Votes: 0

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret Votes: 0

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. Votes: 0

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it Votes: 0

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. Votes: 0

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Votes: 0

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons. Votes: 0

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. Votes: 0

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. Votes: 0

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it, Votes: 0

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. Votes: 0

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. Votes: 0

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. Votes: 0

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. Votes: 0

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture. Votes: 0

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. Votes: 0

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. Votes: 0

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. Votes: 0

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years. Votes: 0

It's time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things. Votes: 0

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. Votes: 0

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. Votes: 0

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. Votes: 0

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. Votes: 0

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. Votes: 0

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. Votes: 0

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. Votes: 0

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. Votes: 0

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge. Votes: 0

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. Votes: 0

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element. Votes: 0

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. Votes: 0

Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose. Votes: 0

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. Votes: 0

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. Votes: 0

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Votes: 0

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. Votes: 0

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. Votes: 0

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. Votes: 0

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. Votes: 0

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Votes: 0

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city Votes: 0

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. Votes: 0

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. Votes: 0

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account. Votes: 0

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. Votes: 0

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art. Votes: 0

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture. Votes: 0

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music. Votes: 0

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. Votes: 0

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Votes: 0

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. Votes: 0

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. Votes: 0

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. Votes: 0

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. Votes: 0

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear Votes: 0

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Votes: 0

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. Votes: 0

There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture. Votes: 0

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. Votes: 0

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. Votes: 0

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress, Votes: 0

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. Votes: 0

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it's burning down. Votes: 0

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture. Votes: 0

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings Votes: 0

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. Votes: 0

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. Votes: 0

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. Votes: 0

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own. Votes: 0

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. Votes: 0

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar Votes: 0

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. Votes: 0

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. Votes: 0

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. Votes: 0

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. Votes: 0

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. Votes: 0

In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. Votes: 0

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. Votes: 0

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. Votes: 0

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. Votes: 0

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. Votes: 0

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. Votes: 0

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. Votes: 0

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. Votes: 0

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. Votes: 0

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. Votes: 0

I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture. Votes: 0

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. Votes: 0

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture Votes: 0

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. Votes: 0

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. Votes: 0

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. Votes: 0

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. Votes: 0

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. Votes: 0

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. Votes: 0

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. Votes: 0

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. Votes: 0

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things. Votes: 0

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. Votes: 0

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience Votes: 0

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,' Votes: 0

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not. Votes: 0

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. Votes: 0

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Votes: 0

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music. Votes: 0

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, Votes: 0

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. Votes: 0

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. Votes: 0

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. Votes: 0

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. Votes: 0

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos. Votes: 0

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. Votes: 0

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. Votes: 0

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important. Votes: 0

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. Votes: 0

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. Votes: 0

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. Votes: 0

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. Votes: 0

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business. Votes: 0

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. Votes: 0

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. Votes: 0

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. Votes: 0

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture. Votes: 0

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. Votes: 0

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. Votes: 0

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. Votes: 0

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen. Votes: 0

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. Votes: 0

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. Votes: 0

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. Votes: 0

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome. Votes: 0

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget. Votes: 0

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. Votes: 0

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. Votes: 0

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. Votes: 0

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither. Votes: 0

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking Votes: 0

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? Votes: 0

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes? Votes: 0

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional. Votes: 0

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. Votes: 0

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. Votes: 0

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion. Votes: 0

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. Votes: 0

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. Votes: 0

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. Votes: 0

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. Votes: 0

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. Votes: 0

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. Votes: 0

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. Votes: 0

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Votes: 0

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. Votes: 0

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture. Votes: 0

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal... Votes: 0

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. Votes: 0

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. Votes: 0

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. Votes: 0

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. Votes: 0

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain. Votes: 0

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking. Votes: 0

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. Votes: 0

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. Votes: 0

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. Votes: 0

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. Votes: 0

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. Votes: 0

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. Votes: 0

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent. Votes: 0

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life. Votes: 0

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. Votes: 0

Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. Votes: 0

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. Votes: 0

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. Votes: 0

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. Votes: 0

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop. Votes: 0

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. Votes: 0

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. Votes: 0

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. Votes: 0

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. Votes: 0

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people. Votes: 0

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time. Votes: 0

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. Votes: 0

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. Votes: 0

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. Votes: 0

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. Votes: 0

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. Votes: 0

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. Votes: 0

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. Votes: 0

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. Votes: 0

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. Votes: 0

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing. Votes: 0

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. Votes: 0

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. Votes: 0

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world. Votes: 0

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. Votes: 0

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. Votes: 0

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma. Votes: 0

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body. Votes: 0

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. Votes: 0

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. Votes: 0

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. Votes: 0

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built Votes: 0

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past Votes: 0

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. Votes: 0

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. Votes: 0

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face. Votes: 0

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. Votes: 0

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' Votes: 0

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. Votes: 0

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style. Votes: 0

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. Votes: 0

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. Votes: 0

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. Votes: 0

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. Votes: 0

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter... Votes: 0

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be. Votes: 0

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s. Votes: 0

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. Votes: 0

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. Votes: 0

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it. Votes: 0

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. Votes: 0

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic. Votes: 0

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. Votes: 0

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful. Votes: 0

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. Votes: 0

The show is called The Office, and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. Votes: 0

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last Votes: 0

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both. Votes: 0

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. Votes: 0

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that. Votes: 0

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. Votes: 0

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. Votes: 0

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? Votes: 0

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions. Votes: 0

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. Votes: 0

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. Votes: 0

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure Votes: 0

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. Votes: 0

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. Votes: 0

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper. Votes: 0

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. Votes: 0

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff. Votes: 0

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do. Votes: 0

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art. Votes: 0

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. Votes: 0

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. Votes: 0

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses Votes: 0

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses. Votes: 0

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love. Votes: 0

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. Votes: 0

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture. Votes: 0

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. Votes: 0

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in one pot. Votes: 0

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing. Votes: 0

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture. Votes: 0