Architecture Quotes

• I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Architecture

• Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • Heart
  • Future
  • Architecture

• When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

  

  Dale Chihuly
  • Night
  • Architecture

• In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • School
  • Art
  • Feeling

• Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

  

  Charles Correa
  • Lying
  • Concerned
  • Function

• We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Doubt
  • Architecture

• 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 have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

  

  Jonathan Hickman
  • Work
  • Art
  • College

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

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • Dream
  • Needs
  • Location

• I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

  

  David Shields
  • Architecture

• Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Architecture

• There is always a conflict and that even increases as I get older. I have to be on my guard not to oversimplify things, but you can hardly deny that architecture is physical presence.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Architecture
  • Conflict
  • Guard

• It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

  

  Fabio Novembre
  • Difficult
  • Architecture
  • Contemporary

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

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Architecture

• No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Simple
  • Architecture

• It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

  

  William Mackergo Taylor
  • Splendid
  • Extravagance
  • Gothic

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

  

  Antoine Predock
  • Architecture

• 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

• Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • Art
  • Space
  • Design

• When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.

  

  Carlo Carra
  • People
  • Mind
  • Musician

• I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Design
  • Architecture

• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Music
  • Writing
  • 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

• My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.

  

  Andy Barrie
  • Building
  • Old
  • Conservatory

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