Architecture Quotes - page 6

I call architecture frozen music. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music. View quote
Friedrich Schelling
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy. View quote
Walter Gropius
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture. View quote
John Green (author)
While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software. View quote
Lewis M. Branscomb
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. View quote
Alvar Aalto
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. View quote
Alvar Aalto
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. View quote
Alvar Aalto
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. (Alvar Aalto)
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. View quote
Alvar Aalto
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i. e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture. View quote
Fred Brooks
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. View quote
Peter Zumthor
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. View quote
Peter Zumthor
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. View quote
Peter Zumthor
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. (Peter Zumthor)
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. View quote
Renzo Piano
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. View quote
Renzo Piano
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. View quote
Richard Meier
Architecture is about public space held by buildings. View quote
Richard Rogers