Architecture Quotes

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

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.

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.