Architecture Quotes

• Its designers drew inspiration from three related traditions: the architecture of the Mughals' central Asian homeland; the buildings erected by earlier Muslim rulers of India, especially in the Delhi region; and the much older architectural expertise of India itself.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Inspiration
  • 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

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

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Architecture

• Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Together
  • Place
  • Bricks

• 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

• In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

  

  Alex Ebert
  • Connection
  • Architecture
  • Greek

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

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • City
  • Architecture

• Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

  

  Mario Botta
  • Church
  • Architecture

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

  

  Luis Barragan
  • 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

• 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
  • Talk
  • Guys

• 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'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

• This book full of linoleum prints will be an alphabet of pictorial elements without text, which shall aim at establishing a larger scale of painting, a closer contact between the artist and the wall, and a new spirit of art accompanying architecture.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Art
  • Book
  • Painting

• 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

• 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

• I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

  

  Doug TenNapel
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Game

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

  

  Mario Botta
  • People
  • Dream
  • Space

• I was always interested in architecture, but the editors of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper wanted people waving with their arms.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • People
  • 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

• 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

• Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Beauty
  • Architecture
  • Synthesis

• Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

  

  Kenneth Frampton
  • Health
  • Architecture
  • Planning

• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Architecture
  • Dangerous
  • Importance

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