Architecture Quotes

Architecture is invention.

Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Richard Rogers

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.

Oscar Niemeyer

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Ben Nicholson

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

Oswald Spengler

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

Tadao Ando

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Joseph Kosinski

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Gates McFadden

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

John Ruskin

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.

Marcus V. Pollio

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

John Irving

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Malcolm Wallop

Architecture is politics.

Mitchell Kapor

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

Roy Lichtenstein

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Maya Lin

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Joe Elliott

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

Caroline Wozniacki

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Stephen Bayley

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Arthur Erickson