Architecture Quotes - Page 11

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

Architecture must make connections

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

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

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.