Quotes about Architecture

“I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.”

“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”

“I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.”

“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.”

“I think architecture has to be a gift.”

“After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.”

“Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.”

“I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.”

“The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.”

“To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.”

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

“The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.”

“Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.”

“I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.”

“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”

“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”

“Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.”

“Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.”

“Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.”

“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”

“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.”