Category: Quotes About Architecture

Whatever good things we build end up building us. -Jim Rohn

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. -Helmut Jahn

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. -Harry von Zell

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? -Jeremy Renner

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. -Frank Lloyd Wright

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. -Helmut Jahn

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. -Rem Koolhaas

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. -Richard Rogers

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. -Maya Lin

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. -Christopher Nolan

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. -Alexander Jackson Davis

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. -Marilyn Hacker

I don't believe in morality in architecture. -Michael Graves

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. -Joe Elliott

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. -Sydney Pollack

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. -Maya Lin

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. -John Portman

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. -Tadao Ando

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. -Minoru Yamasaki

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. -Stephen Gardiner

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? -Bernard Levin