Architecture Quotes

• Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

  

  Michael Graves
  • Design
  • Building
  • Affair

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Good
  • Architecture

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • City
  • Tree
  • Architecture

• Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Architecture

• Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Soul
  • Teach
  • Condition

• 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

• Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

  

  Martin Filler
  • Death
  • Design
  • Batman

• 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

• Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • Architecture

• There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.

  

  Nicholas Biddle
  • Bible
  • Architecture
  • Truths

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

  

  Antoine Predock
  • Technology
  • Architecture

• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Architecture

• What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Style
  • Wonder
  • Architecture

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Space

• Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Space
  • Spiritual
  • Architecture

• Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

  

  Antoine Predock
  • Architecture

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