Architecture Quotes

• 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Empowering

• Only in movement do we find the true essence of things. Today we can no longer believe in permanent laws, defined religions, durable architecture or eternal kingdoms. Immutability does not exist. All is movement. All is static.

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • Believe
  • True
  • Today

• Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

  

  Louis Kahn
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Help

• I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Design

• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Soul

• In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • History
  • Architecture

• Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Move
  • Preventive
  • Curative

• I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Children
  • Real
  • Hope

• People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

  

  Jake Barton
  • People
  • Moving
  • Architecture

• Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.

  

  Donald Bren
  • Life
  • Energy
  • 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

• '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

• 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

• In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

  

  Neil Denari
  • Interesting
  • Architecture

• Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

  

  Jay Griffiths
  • Different
  • Society
  • Science

• Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.

  

  Anthony Lawlor
  • Made
  • Architecture
  • Memory

• When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • People
  • Free
  • Architecture

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

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Game
  • Architecture

• About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

  

  Max Walker
  • World
  • Art
  • Sports

• As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Character
  • Architecture

• Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Change
  • Something
  • Retain

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