Architecture Quotes

• Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

  

  Wu Guanzhong
  • Purpose
  • Architecture
  • Sensibility

• I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Found

• One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Design
  • Starting
  • Badass

• I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I realized very quickly that I was interested in the social ramifications of form making. So buildings became the vehicle and fulfilled that thing. That satisfied me when I produced them. I decided this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  

  David Adjaye
  • World
  • School
  • Building

• Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

  

  Patrick Cox
  • Design
  • Architecture
  • Shoe

• Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

  

  Witold Rybczynski
  • Art
  • Practice
  • Theory

• 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.

  

  Michael Hansmeyer
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Design

• Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Architecture
  • Profession

• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Children
  • Night
  • Sleep

• You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Listening
  • Missing
  • Opposites

• I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

  

  Cesar Pelli
  • Design
  • Looks
  • Wonderful

• You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Should
  • Accepting
  • Exposed

• I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.

  

  George Frisbie Hoar
  • Beautiful
  • Mountain
  • Flower

• An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Home
  • Speak
  • Architect

• Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

  

  William Morris
  • Mean
  • Design
  • Times

• Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

  

  William McDonough
  • Men
  • Energy
  • Architecture

• What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Imagination
  • Stories
  • Storyteller

• Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

  

  Geoffrey Jellicoe
  • Remember
  • Architecture

• Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Architecture

• We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Worthy
  • Civilisation
  • Disconnected

• I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

  

  Hayden Christensen
  • Architecture
  • Hollywood

• All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Look
  • Architecture

• Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.

  

  Karl Friedrich Schinkel
  • Past
  • Historical
  • Contemporary

• The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Style
  • Species
  • Psychedelic

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