Architecture Quotes

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

Geoffrey Jellicoe
- Remember
- Architecture

The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic.

Bram van Velde
- Beauty
- Convinced
- Panic
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

Ray Bradbury
- Art
- Earth
- Reading
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
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

John Ruskin
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

Minoru Yamasaki
- Architecture
- Japanese