Architecture Quotes
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Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.
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If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
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Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
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The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.
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Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
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Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
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Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
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My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.
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One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
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Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
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He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
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I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.
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I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.
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I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
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I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
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What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.
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A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
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Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. (p. 120)
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I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.
