Architecture Quotes

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Walter Russell Mead

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

Richard Rogers

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

James Stewart

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Le Corbusier

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Rem Koolhaas

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Arne Jacobsen

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.

Luis Barragan

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende

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

Arne Jacobsen

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Tadao Ando

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Adolf Loos

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Maya Lin

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Harry Seidler

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Nancy BanksSmith

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.

Ben Nicholson

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Antonio Gaudi