Architecture Quotes

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and yo...

...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first C...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, e...

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

The flowering of geometry.

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...

On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there wer...

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have ...

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in...

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them i...

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make i...

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

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

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from t...

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must f...

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the per...

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief ...

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when w...

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more...

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and th...

A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to t...

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the lo...

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, m...

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

I’m relieved to seethat even brilliant physicists make mistakes.”Kohler looked over. “What do you me...

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded w...

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces o...

What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is...

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of hi...

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should l...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge ever...

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance ...

In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible ...

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious ...

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justif...

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

It was––how shall I put it?––a painfully solitary building. Let me explain. Say we have a concept. I...

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but ...

I call architecture frozen music.

The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he...

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes i...

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture...

I see music as fluid architecture.

How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkn...

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — yo...

The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hie...

Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of...

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Every city is a ghost.New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, ea...

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, no...

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is n...

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have somet...

Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

I followed the other Experiment around, yesterday afternoon, at a distance, to see what it might be ...

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literatur...