Architecture Quotes

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

Henry Paulson
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

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

Neil Denari
- Interesting
- 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
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Peter Zumthor
- Up
- Society
- Architecture
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Arne Jacobsen
- Long
- Done
- Architecture
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

John Ruskin
The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

Adam Savage