Architecture Quotes

• Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Together
  • Moments
  • Lyric

• Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • World
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• 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 always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Space
  • Architecture

• One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Architecture

• Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Architecture

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

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Design
  • Architecture

• I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Science
  • Literature

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

  

  James Polshek
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Architecture

• It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Life
  • Great
  • Dream

• Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Done
  • Architecture

• Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Mind
  • Beautiful

• I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Green
  • Architecture

• To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

  

  Leon Max
  • Simple
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

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

  

  Jay Chiat
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Success
  • Spiritual
  • Deep

• 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

• We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Help
  • Future
  • Unique

• Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

  

  Mario Botta
  • Great
  • Past
  • Simple

• 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

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

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • High
  • House
  • Architecture

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