Architecture Quotations | Page 2

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

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

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

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

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?'

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

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

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

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.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

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.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.