Architecture Quotes

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

  

  Mario Botta
  • Church
  • 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Mario Botta
  • People
  • Dream
  • Space

• We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Time
  • Bad
  • House

• 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

• I’ve learnt to stop treating architecture as consisting of privileged forms and materials; that’s the hallmark of the strictly disciplinary approach. I think it is more realistic to start with the problems of the people and their environment.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Architecture
  • Approach
  • Disciplinary

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

  

  Luis Barragan
  • Architecture

• 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

• 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

• In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pride
  • Architecture
  • Oratory

• Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Together
  • Place
  • Bricks

• Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Architecture

• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

  

  Peter Marino
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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