Architecture Quotes - page 7

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. (Richard Rogers)
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. View quote
Richard Rogers
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. View quote
Richard Rogers
Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future. View quote
Richard Rogers
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. View quote
Ruta Sepetys
I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. View quote
Tadao Ando
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. (Tadao Ando)
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. View quote
Tadao Ando
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK. View quote
Thom Mayne
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. View quote
Thom Mayne
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. View quote
Thom Mayne
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku. View quote
Thom Mayne
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
My architecture is the architecture of survival. View quote
Frei Otto
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. View quote
Frei Otto
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. View quote
Frei Otto
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. (Bjarke Ingels)
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. View quote
Bjarke Ingels
The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home. View quote
Vince Vaughn
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. View quote
Jude Deveraux
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. View quote
Dieter Rams