Architecture Quotes

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

Dressmaking is the architecture of movement

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

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

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

Life is more important than architecture.

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.