Architecture Quotes

• It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • Good
  • Myself

• Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Action

• The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Culture
  • City
  • Christian

• Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Good
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Hand
  • Wind
  • Sand

• I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Time
  • Architecture

• I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

  

  Charles Gwathmey
  • Fashion
  • Quality
  • Environment

• 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
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  

  Charlotte Bunch
  • Women
  • House
  • Reality

• The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.

  

  Mario Botta
  • World
  • History
  • Architecture

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

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • World
  • Architecture

• I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Great
  • Architecture
  • Beach

• I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Life
  • Art
  • Character

• Art will not only continue but will realise itself more and more. By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Painting

• By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Time
  • High
  • Style

• It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Political
  • Architecture

• I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Alone
  • Design
  • Color

• Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Together
  • Two
  • Architect

• It is a spectacular example of Mughal architecture, blends Islamic, Hindu, and Persian styles.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Architecture
  • Islamic

• Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Experience
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• ..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

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

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Light
  • Search
  • Drawing

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

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Choices
  • Architecture

• Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Good
  • Language
  • Poet

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