Best Architecture Quotes

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

Architecture is man’sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art is great life.

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

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you’ve got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one’s entire life.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building.

Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment

There’s no architect who doesn’t want to build a library – and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading – because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity – that is a very exciting area in architecture.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

Architecture is frozen music.[Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational … architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don’t realize it. That’s because it doesn’t take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog – comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go – you’re all set to go into business – just slap a sign out front.

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they’ve created these amazing churches.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.

There’s something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It’s just breathtaking.