Architecture Quotes
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If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
Carlo Scarpa
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Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.
John Ruskin
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
John Ruskin
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Few buildings evoke the sinister horror of 1950s municipal architecture more strikingly than the flat roof pub. Thrown up in their thousands wherever the working class were being rehoused, it’s hard to imagine that the architects were not secret teetotallers looking to make the whole pub experience as grim as possible. How else do you explain the cheap portal frame construction, the equally cheap uninsulated concrete slabs, and the flat roof with just enough parapet to ensure that damaging puddles formed with the lightest drizzle.
Ben Aaronovitch
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The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.
El Lissitzky
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Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.
Denise Scott Brown
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London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
Renzo Piano
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I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture.
Lidia Bastianich
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Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
George Nelson
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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
Maya Lin
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Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
Kevin McCloud
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At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space, it's also to work with the time, to work with the people who are involved with the place. It's also dealing with history. It takes all this into account. Other works can be placed in different environments, but they always follow a rule. This is usually not the case for work in situ, because even if they are transported, they remain there forever or they are destroyed.
Daniel Buren
