Architecture Quotes

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

You could spend your time with your nose buried in a guidebook, but Amsterdam really is best explored on foot, so you can stumble upon the city's hidden gems. The architecture and the beauty of some of the buildings is also wonderful.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.