Architecture Quotes

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.

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.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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.