Architecture quotes

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

- Adolf Loos

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

- Rem Koolhaas

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

- Minoru Yamasaki

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

- Ralph Erskine

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

- Michael Graves

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

- Louis Kahn

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

- Tony Scott

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

- Stephen Gardiner

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

- Le Corbusier

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

- Luis Barragan

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

- Maya Lin

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

- Helmut Jahn

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

- Arthur Erickson

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

- Henry David Thoreau

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

- Art Garfunkel

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.

- Richard Meier

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Catherine Deneuve

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

- Stephen Gardiner

Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

- Helmut Jahn

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

- Walter Gropius

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

- Stephen Gardiner

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

- Michael Graves

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

- Helmut Jahn

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

- Philip Johnson

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

- Stephen Gardiner

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

- Parker Stevenson

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.

- Stephen Sprouse

I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.

- Helmut Jahn

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

- John Baldacci