Architecture Quotes

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

What people want, above all, is order.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Form follows function.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

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.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

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

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

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.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

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