Architecture Quotes

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

A year before I met Mark Brydon - he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko - I was living in Sheffield with a guy who was studying architecture. I used to go to his college and crash the lectures there. I had enrolled to do a fine art course, but then I met Mark, and we signed a record deal instead.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

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

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

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

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.