Architecture Quotes
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
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A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
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The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.
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We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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It is the queen of architecture. Other buildings may be as famous, but no other is so consistently admired for a beauty that is seen as both feminine and regal. Many people feel that to class Taj Mahal as architecture is a mistake: it is both too personal and too magnificent.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
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Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
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You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
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The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
