Architecture Quotes

a man who builds a house never really dies.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

I still hope that the American system of checks and balances will ultimately prevent this man, Donald Trump, with his erratic political style, from jeopardizing our European security architecture.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

To build is to be robbed.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried to empathize architecture as much as I could.

I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

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

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

A house can have integrity, just like a person, ' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar