Architecture Quotes

As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. "The client made me do this." "The city made me do this." "Oh, the budget." I don't believe that anymore.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

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.

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

Architecture is crystallized music.

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think.

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it