Architecture Quotes

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

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Job
  • Architecture

• You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Vision

• Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

  

  Charles Correa
  • Lying
  • Concerned
  • Function

• 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

• Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Architecture
  • Winter

• 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

• 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

• Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

  

  David Chipperfield
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

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

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • City
  • 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

• Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • God
  • Science
  • Universe

• I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Architecture

• As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Growing
  • Architecture

• I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Architecture
  • Rebel

• For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

  

  Mario Botta
  • People
  • Dream
  • Space

• From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture

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

  

  Brian Baumgartner
  • People
  • Important
  • Space

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

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Life
  • Architecture

• I turned right onto the A410 which went north with suspiciously Roman straightness toward Aymestrey, which is less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Road
  • Architecture
  • Diorama

• I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.

  

  Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López At the Drive-In
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Musician

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

  

  Luis Barragan
  • Architecture

• 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

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

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

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

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Architecture

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