Architecture Quotes

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

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

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

I have no requirements for a style of 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.

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.