Quotes about Architecture

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”

“I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a lot of architecture in our songs.”

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”

“What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.”

“Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.”

“The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.”

“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”

“Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.”

“I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.”

“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.”

“If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.”

“In writing 'The Humans,' I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture.”

“I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.”

“In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.”

“I came to London constantly, working with Ninja Theory on 'DmC Devil May Cry,' and I kind of fell in love with this amazing architecture, where you have these buildings that have clearly been around a long time, and they have this amazing gothic look, and then on the first floor, it's a McDonald's!”

“I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.”

“What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?”

“I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.”

“I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.”

“I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.”