Architecture Quotes

• Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Interesting
  • Quality
  • Mysterious

• Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

  

  Amanda Hearst
  • Architecture

• Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Architecture

• I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

  

  Anika Noni Rose
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • City

• My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

  

  Tim Gunn
  • Architecture
  • Captivated

• 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

• The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.

  

  Antoine Predock
  • Space
  • Fashion
  • Moments

• Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Work
  • Architecture

• When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Architecture

• 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

• If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Art
  • Architecture

• In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Architecture
  • Logical Reasoning

• Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Architecture

• I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • Art
  • History
  • Architecture

• Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Emotion

• A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • True
  • Soul
  • Light

• Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Women
  • Forever
  • Architecture

• I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

  

  James Polshek
  • Good
  • Age
  • Architecture

• The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

  

  Bernard Tschumi
  • Architecture

• I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Financial
  • Institution
  • Taxpayers

• The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

  

  John Irving
  • Architecture

• Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

  

  James Wyatt
  • Long
  • Country
  • Architecture

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