Architecture Quotes

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

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.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

I call architecture frozen music.

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

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

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.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

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.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

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.