Architecture quotes

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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.

- Arne Jacobsen

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

- Minoru Yamasaki

Architecture aims at Eternity.

- Christopher Wren

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

- Stephen Gardiner

Architecture is politics.

- Mitchell Kapor

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

- Nancy Banks Smith

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!

- T. E. Lawrence

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

- Frank Stella

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

- John Ruskin

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

- Tadao Ando

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

- Michael Graves

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

- Thom Mayne

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

- Charles Eames

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

- Helmut Jahn

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

- Frank Gehry

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

- Alex Winter

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

- Goldwin Smith

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

- Daniel Libeskind

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

- Voltaire

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.

- Oksana Baiul

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.

- Mukesh Ambani

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

- Samuel Butler

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

- Marilyn Hacker

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

- Harry Seidler

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

- John Irving

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

- Arthur Erickson

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

- Philip Warren Anderson

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

- Daniel Libeskind