Architecture Quotes

• 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

• 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

• I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Art
  • College
  • Engineering

• All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.

  

  Elihu Burritt
  • Nature
  • Humanity
  • Pleasures

• Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Design
  • Requires
  • Anticipatory

• I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Great
  • Architecture
  • Beach

• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

  

  Leon Krier
  • True
  • Architecture

• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• 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

• 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

• If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Movie
  • Earth
  • Space

• Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Children

• Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Power
  • Order
  • Confusion

• 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

• 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 the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Work
  • Architecture

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

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Art
  • Architecture

• As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Inspired

• There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

  

  Eric Dane
  • Architecture

• Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Language

• With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Music
  • Done
  • Job

• There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

  

  Peter Marino
  • Work
  • Important
  • Art

• I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

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