Architecture Quotes

• In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.

  

  Mario Botta
  • Architecture
  • Italian

• Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Architecture
  • Planning
  • Slower

• 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

• The frenzy in New York does not lie in the architecture, but in the intersections between the buildings, the traffic, the innumerable things going on, the mixture of cultures. The architecture forms a solid and static foundation for all that speed. The tops of the skyscrapers are narrow and fantastic, but lower down they are sturdy and unambiguous.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Architecture
  • New York
  • Frenzy

• A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Architecture

• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Architecture

• I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

  

  Antoine Predock
  • Technology
  • Architecture

• To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures.

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • Dream
  • Needs
  • Location

• I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Deep
  • Literature
  • Architecture

• The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Good
  • 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

• 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

• Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Building
  • Bigger
  • Structure

• Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

  

  Joshua Prince-Ramus
  • Way
  • Architecture
  • Sketch

• A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • True
  • Soul
  • Light

• 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

• From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Science
  • Names
  • Greek

• I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Design
  • Architecture

• The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.

  

  Zelda Fichandler
  • Important
  • Architecture

• The free placement of the means of expression is a privilege enjoyed exclusively by painting different opinion with Theo van Doesburg . The sister arts, sculpture and architecture, are more restricted in this respect. The other arts enjoy even less scope in their employment of the means of expression.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Different
  • Free
  • Respect

• Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that.

  

  Jeff Perry
  • Time
  • Management
  • 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

• 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

• If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.

  

  Deniz Gamze Erguven
  • Impression
  • Seen
  • Temper

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