Architecture Quotes

• The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Music
  • Approach

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

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

• 'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Architecture

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

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Good
  • Language
  • Poet

• There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

  

  James Henry Breasted
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Time
  • Business
  • Future

• 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

• 'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Black
  • Past
  • Ghetto

• I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Thinking
  • Architecture
  • Agendas

• If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Science
  • Tree
  • Architecture

• There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

  

  Dan Rice
  • Through
  • Paintings
  • Sculpture

• I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Game
  • Architecture

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

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Life
  • Different
  • Architecture

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

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Architecture

• Just when you think that you thought that the guys in Billy Talent partied and did coke and had sex with all these hookers, we actually talk about architecture and, eh...history.

  

  Benjamin Kowalewicz Billy Talent
  • History
  • Guys
  • Talk

• My ambition has always been to reduce a building’s support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life’s work.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture,

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Design
  • Organization
  • Architecture

• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Architecture

• My work is about structure. It has never been a reaction to Abstract Expressionism. I saw the Abstract Expressionists for the first time in 1954. My line of influence has been the 'structure' of the things I liked: French Romanesque architecture, Byzantine, Egyptian and Oriental art, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Klee, Picasso, Beckman..

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Space
  • Taken
  • Architecture

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

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • City
  • Architecture

• I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Up
  • House
  • Culture

• I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Life
  • Single
  • Architecture

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