Architecture Quotes

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

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

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornam…

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?

Architecture is politics.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture mu…

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

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where …

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the…

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.