Architecture Quotes - page 5

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. (Luis Barragán)
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. View quote
Luis Barragán
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. View quote
Luis Barragán
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights. View quote
Barbara Kruger
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. View quote
Richard Serra
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness. View quote
Carl Sagan
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them. View quote
Robert Crumb
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through. View quote
Dan Rice
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. View quote
Audre Lorde
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. (Vitruvius)
Men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture. View quote
Vitruvius
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. View quote
Le Corbusier
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. View quote
Milton Friedman
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. View quote
Zaha Hadid
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. View quote
Zaha Hadid
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. View quote
Zaha Hadid
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. View quote
Zaha Hadid
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... View quote
Victor Hugo
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. (Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe