Architecture Quotes
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
Walter Gropius
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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
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
I. M. Pei
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
G-Eazy
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Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.
Hubert de Givenchy
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Walter Gropius
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Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
Martin Filler
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
Daniel Libeskind
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
Rachel McAdams
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
Malcolm Wallop
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
James Polshek