Architecture Quotes

• 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

• I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • People
  • Food
  • Design

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

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Power
  • Order
  • Confusion

• Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Emotion

• I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Angry

• Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • God
  • Science
  • Universe

• I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

  

  Alex Winter
  • Music
  • Architecture

• 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

• There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • City
  • Tree
  • Architecture

• I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

  

  James Stewart
  • Done
  • Fun
  • College

• I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.

  

  Christopher Bailey
  • Environment
  • Design
  • Facts

• Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Architecture

• If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Art
  • Architecture

• 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

• 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

• Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

  

  Aldo Rossi
  • City
  • Architecture
  • Condition

• Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Children
  • Architecture
  • Client

• I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

  

  John Rocha
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• 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

• In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.

  

  James Watkins
  • Architecture

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

  

  Leon Krier
  • True
  • Architecture

• There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Technology

• The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

  

  John Irving
  • Architecture

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