Architecture Quotes

• Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Design
  • Requires
  • Anticipatory

• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Truth
  • Private
  • Human Life

• Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

  

  Louis Kahn
  • Space
  • Architecture
  • Thoughtful

• Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Form
  • Structure

• 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

• 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

• I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

  

  Philip Warren Anderson
  • Art
  • Game
  • Culture

• 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

• Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Practice
  • Architecture

• An important work of architecture will create polemics.

  

  Richard Meier
  • Important
  • Architecture
  • Polemics

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

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Art
  • Architecture

• The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Art
  • Question

• 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

• The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a relationship with. He was first our manager and then our soundman. When I met him, he was in design school for architecture, so he was always drawing.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Real
  • School
  • Heart

• I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

  

  Luke Macfarlane
  • Different
  • Live
  • House

• 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

• It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Up
  • School
  • Fun

• You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Money
  • Architecture
  • Prince

• If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Up
  • Good
  • Political

• ...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Design
  • Approach
  • Anticipatory

• Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  

  Louis Kahn
  • Truth
  • Architecture

• There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by the Adams, I am obliged to comply with it.

  

  James Wyatt
  • Architecture
  • Obliged
  • Public Taste

• 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

• People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Architecture

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