Quotes about Architecture

“Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.”

“Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.”

“I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.”

“Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind.”

“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.”

“The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.”

“Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.”

“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”

“I've always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn't until I went to architecture school, though, that I really loved school work.”

“I like the architecture of lingerie.”

“I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.”

“Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.”

“I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.”

“Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.”

“There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.”

“I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.”

“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

“The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science.”

“I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.”

“In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.”

“I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.”