Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Architecture.
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
John Portman
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ernest Dimnet
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
Luis Barragan
A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
Helmut Jahn
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
Aldous Huxley
We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.
Levon Helm
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
What people want, above all, is order.
Stephen Gardiner
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
Jim Woodring
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
Enid Nemy
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
Maya Lin
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
Ben Nicholson
One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
Oksana Baiul
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
Robert Palmer
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Richard Meier
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
Jean Nouvel
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Daniel Burnham
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
Anthony Holden
