Quotes of: Architectural Keyword

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Louis Kahn

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Moshe Safdie

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Nancy Banks Smith

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Philip Johnson

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

Renzo Piano

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Renzo Piano

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

Sara Sheridan

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Thomas Heatherwick

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

Twyla Tharp

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

Voltaire

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

Zaha Hadid

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

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.

Rossana Condoleo

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Christopher Wren

[passing a Stonehenge-like structure] Manfred: Modern architecture. It'll never last.

Ice Age

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

David Chipperfield

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

Alan Huffman

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

Ben Nicholson

I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

Dexter Fletcher

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Francisco Costa

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright