Quotes about architecture are powerful expressions of thoughts and ideas regarding the field of building design and construction. They provide insights into the importance and impact of architecture on society and individuals. These quotes often highlight the relationship between architecture and its surroundings, emphasizing the ability of buildings to shape the environment and influence human behavior. They also underscore the role of architecture in creating functional and aesthetic spaces that enhance quality of life.
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. — Luis Barragan
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity. — Kenzo Tange
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Short Architecture Quotes
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. — Le Corbusier
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. — Frank Gehry
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi
Architecture Image Quotes
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman
Design of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. — Steve Martin
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. — Philip Johnson
An important work of architecture will create polemics. — Richard Meier
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The hand expresses what the heart already knows. — Samuel Mockbee
My favorite project is always the next one. — Michael Graves
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. — Richard Rogers
Landscape Architecture Quotes
I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. — Lebbeus Woods
I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns. — Gottfried Bohm
I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention. — Candice Millard
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels — Rebecca Solnit
The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade. — Sayings
To truly make good public space, you have to erase the distinctions between architecture, urbanism, landscape, [and] media design. — Liz Diller
Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design. — Richard Moe
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. — Dieter Rams
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. — Antoine Predock
Architecture And Design Quotes
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing. — Tadao Ando
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. — Walter Gropius
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is
and the richness with which this is experienced. — John Pawson
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli
Architecture And Art Quotes
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. — Santiago Calatrava
I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born. — Eric Kandel
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet. — Ada Louise Huxtable
Art should be created for life, not for the museum — Jean Nouvel
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space. — Curt Sachs
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. — Maya Lin
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy Banks-Smith
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali
Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another. — Zaha Hadid
Modern Architecture Quotes
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots. — I. M. Pei
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy. — Walter Gropius
Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude — Marcel Breuer
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy BanksSmith
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. — Alvar Aalto
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. — Roger Waters
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. — John Baldacci
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today. — Jean Nouvel
Beautiful Architecture Quotes
Architecture
is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
beautiful context for life's drama. — Frank Gehry
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last — Roger Scruton
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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. — Peter Zumthor
...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. — John Herschel
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul. — Luis Barragan
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. — Ada Louise Huxtable
Organic Architecture Quotes
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity. — El Lissitzky
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. — Mukesh Ambani
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture — Alvar Aalto
For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with. — Amitai Etzioni
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. — Jay Chiat
The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. — Philip Johnson
Architecture School Quotes
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. — Parker Stevenson
I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin. — Oscar Niemeyer
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. — Richard Rogers
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. — Stephen Sprouse
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. — Isaac Asimov
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it. — Cesar Pelli
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. — Emilio Ambasz
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. — Janet Echelman
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. — Nico Tortorella
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Joyce Carey
Information Architecture Quotes
Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy. — Jakob Nielsen
Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation is based on understanding. — Richard Saul Wurman
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. — Tony Scott
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. — Kenzo Tange
It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry Riley talking about how he thinks so much about cinema. I'd love to see more of a rupture between mediums and a flow between them. — Doug Aitken
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information. — Clayton Christensen
80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning. — Roger Black
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. — John Howe
If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a bright opportunity to influence users. Content is not a nice-to-have extra. Content is a star of the user experience show. Let’s make content shine. — Colleen Jones
Architect Quotes
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. — Zaha Hadid
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore. — Zaha Hadid
If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe. — Paul Bocuse
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. — Richard Meier
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts. — Walter Gropius
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. — Robin Sharma
To create, one must first question everything. — Eileen Gray
Great Architecture Quotes
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. — Tadao Ando
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. — G. K. Chesterton
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. — Philip Johnson
Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. — Richard Nickel
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. — Richard Rogers
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. — Peter Eisenman
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles. — Ilona Andrews
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation. — Michel De Certeau
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity. — Christopher Wren
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall. — Louis Kahn
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. — Zaha Hadid
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence. — Eero Saarinen
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind — Tadao Ando
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy. — Jane Jacobs
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory. — Aldo Rossi
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house. — Renzo Piano
In Conclusion
Architectural quotes convey the significance of thoughtful and innovative design in the built environment. They emphasize the timeless nature of good architecture and its ability to withstand the test of time. These quotes also emphasize the need for harmony and balance in architectural creations, as well as the importance of functionality and practicality. They serve as reminders of the transformative power of architecture to inspire, uplift, and improve the lives of people who interact with built spaces.
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