Architecture Quotes - page 2

We have to base architecture on the environment. (Toyo Ito)
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity. View quote
Frank Gehry
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. View quote
Herbert Simon
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts. View quote
Joseph Addison
Nor does complexity deny the valid simplification which is part of the process of analysis, and even a method of achieving complex architecture itself. View quote
Robert Venturi
I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. View quote
Robert Venturi
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. (Federico García Lorca)
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. View quote
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. View quote
Ernest Dimnet
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry, Propriety, and Economy. View quote
Vitruvius
In all matters but particularly in architecture ...that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. ...One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions. View quote
Vitruvius
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods. View quote
Vitruvius
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. View quote
Martin Mull
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. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. View quote
Peter Zumthor
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. (Peter Zumthor)
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. View quote
Renzo Piano
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. View quote
Renzo Piano
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. View quote
Richard Rogers
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando