Architecture Quotes

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

Carlos Slim
Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Walter Gropius
- Architecture
- Engineering

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

Ben van Berkel
- Time
- Music
- Live
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

Renzo Piano
- Art
- Architecture
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

Walter Gropius
- Democracy
- Architecture
There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

Nathaniel Kahn
- Life
- Time
- Good
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Parker Stevenson
- School
- Happy
- College
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

Christian de Portzamparc
- City
- Vision
- Paris