Architecture Quotes

In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

The flowering of geometry.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Simple is complicated.

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

We are what we build

With the balcony doors completely open and folded up, his small room acquired an infinite vista. Somewhere on the horizon, water finally worked up the courage to embrace the sky.

Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us

You are my other self

Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhereis felt everywhere.

SEE what you think.

We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

Living in new shapes, reshapes our thinking

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

When strange objects shapes the landscape, we get fiction

I don't know who you are, " she thought, "but whoever you are, you're one hell of a player.

Even a brick wants to be something.A brick wants to be something.It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to be something more than it is.It wants to be something better than it is.

The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves.

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone in an apartment house, square and white like a block of tofu, on the edge of town.

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.

Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.

Mason was a first-rate spatial voyeur, an autodidact of architectural exteriors.

In pursuing a ‘way, ’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.