Top 25 Architect Quotes of 128 - Page 6

The future of architecture is culture.

Philip Johnson

Culture, Architecture

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Design, Frozen, Architecture

'Philosophie der Kunst' (1809)

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

Roger Scruton

Lines, May, Architecture

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

David Adjaye

People, Design, Architecture

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Bernard Tschumi

Architecture, Building, Cathedrals

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Samuel Mockbee

Inspiration, Everyday, Architecture

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

Wall, Events, Architecture

"Dead man building: is Louis Kahn's posthumous New York project his best?" by Oliver Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2014.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

John Herschel

Nature, Delicacy, Architecture

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). “The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Robert Moses

Cities, Taste, Architecture

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

Peter Zumthor

Passionate, Architect

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

Peter Zumthor

Thinking, Architecture

Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture, Forget, Easy

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Louis Sullivan

Identity, Ornaments, Architecture

Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

Donald Judd

Art, Architecture, Isolation

Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Robert Smithson

Art, Architecture, Output

Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Careers, Architecture, Building

Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.170

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Modern Life, Architecture, Modern

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Oscar Niemeyer

Light, Drawing, Architecture

"Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

Life is more important than architecture.

Oscar Niemeyer

Important, Architecture, Life Is

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.

Madeleine Vionnet

Play, Dresses, Architecture

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

Lebbeus Woods

People, Political, Architecture

"Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods". Interview with Geoff Manaugh, www.bldgblog.com. October 3, 2007.