Architecture Quotes

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.