Architectural Quotes
Sad Quotes about Architectural

I am but an architectural composer.
- Alexander Jackson Davis

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era.
It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak
periods in western civilisation.
- Harry Seidler

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra,
eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
- Arthur Erickson

The center of Western culture is Greece,
and we have never lost our ties with the architectural
concepts of that ancient civilization.
- Stephen Gardiner

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural,
when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
- Guillaume Apollinaire

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be
housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
- Edvard Munch

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.
- Robert Mayer

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
- Adolf Loos

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
- Paul Goldberger

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the
belief that most planning and architectural design
suffers for lack of real and basic purpose.
The ultimate purpose, it seems to me,
must be the improvement of mankind.
- James Rouse

I'm not an architectural composer.
- Harrison Birtwistle

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects,
will become more seriously involved in producing a
new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex -
where it has stood before -
and lead the world.
- Tadao Ando

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest,
whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe;
for within its precincts,
surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for
a town of five hundred families.
- Hernando Cortes

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture,
I pursue it as an artist.
I deliberately keep a tiny studio.
I don't want to be an architectural firm.
I want to remain an artist.
- Maya Lin

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years,
so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the
acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
- Rem Koolhaas

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends -
architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs
and organizational structure.
These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines,
and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
- Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent,
of forms assembled in the light.
- Le Corbusier

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
- Julia Morgan

Architecture tends to consume everything else,
it has become one's entire life.
- Arne Jacobsen

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- Philip Johnson

Architecture is not an inspirational business,
it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things;
that's all.
- Harry Seidler

In any architecture, there is an equity between the
pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
- Michael Graves

I believe that the way people live can be directed
a little by architecture.
- Tadao Ando

Architecture arouses sentiments in man.
The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
- Adolf Loos

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live
today than any other building that has gone remotely
by the name of architecture in our history.
- Russell Lynes

Architecture is basically a container of something.
I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup,
but the tea.
- Yoshio Taniguchi

Architecture should speak of its time and place,
but yearn for timelessness.
- Frank Gehry

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.
There it begins.
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
- Louis Kahn

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture.
It is not the physical statement of the structure so
much as what it contains that moves us.
- Arthur Erickson

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody
history but to articulate it.
- Daniel Libeskind

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening;
to me they are one.
- Luis Barragan

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings.
That's art to me.
- Maya Lin

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the
due proportions of buildings.
- Marcus V. Pollio

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
- Thomas Kempis

I love building spaces: architecture,
furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion.
The development procedure is more tactile.
It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
- Donna Karan

The frightening thought that what you draw may become
a building makes for reasoned lines.
- Saul Steinberg

Every building is a prototype.
No two are alike.
- Helmut Jahn

The higher the building the lower the morals.
- Noel Coward

What people want, above all, is order.
- Stephen Gardiner

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support
for their new works collaborate with the creator.
- Antonio Gaudi

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work,
remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
- Daniel Burnham

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
- Thomas Fuller

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable,
must go through measurable means when it is being designed
and in the end must be unmeasurable.
- Louis Kahn

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated
housing problem but housing involved in our daily work
and all the other functions of the city.
- Alvar Aalto

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
- Maya Lin

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at;
its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
- David Allan Coe

My buildings will be my legacy...
they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
- Julia Morgan

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35,
you're older than most of the buildings.
- Delia Ephron

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
- Alexander Jackson Davis

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
The house thinks of the present.
- Adolf Loos

Color in certain places has the great value of making
the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
- Antonio Gaudi

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture,
and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it,
is because I believe we - architects -
can effect the quality of life of the people.
- Richard Rogers

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness:
first,
the doing their practical duty well:
then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
- John Ruskin

A building has integrity just like a man.
And just as seldom.
- Ayn Rand

To me, a building - if it's beautiful -
is the love of one man,
he's made it out of his love for space,
materials, things like that.
- Martha Graham

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
- John Osborne

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
- Jimmy Breslin

A city building, you experience when you walk;
a suburban building,
you experience when you drive.
- Helmut Jahn

Form follows function.
- Louis Sullivan

I hate vacations.
If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
- Philip Johnson

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
- Michael Graves

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch,
but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel
shapes and domes is theirs.
- Harry Seidler

We build buildings which are terribly restless.
And buildings don't go anywhere.
They shouldn't be restless.
- Minoru Yamasaki

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together.
I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
- Martin Puryear

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty.
They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been
literally hewn out between the columns.
- Arne Jacobsen

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
- Daniel Libeskind

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple:
providing space at the right cost.
- Harry von Zell

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century.
It is a city frozen in time.
- Richard Meier