Architecture Quotes

• I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Time
  • Architecture

• When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Culture

• In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.

  

  Alex Biryukov
  • Long
  • Popular
  • Architecture

• 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.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • Good
  • Myself

• I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Wind

• The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.

  

  Mario Botta
  • World
  • History
  • Architecture

• Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Architecture

• If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Architecture
  • Escape
  • Temple

• Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Architecture

• Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

  

  Frei Otto
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Architecture

• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Time
  • Architecture

• The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

  

  Danny Rimer
  • Experience
  • Architecture

• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  

  Charlotte Bunch
  • Women
  • House
  • Reality

• One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Architecture

• Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Hand
  • Wind
  • Sand

• The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Music
  • Art
  • Painting

• There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Work
  • Focus
  • Moments

• Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Success
  • Architecture
  • Authenticity

• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • Why
  • Architecture

• 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.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Screenplay
  • Preston Sturges
  • The Palm Beach Story

• Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Action

• Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Architecture

• It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Light
  • Search
  • Drawing

• 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.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

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