Architecture Quotes

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Alvar Aalto

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Alvar Aalto

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Alvar Aalto

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Alexander Jackson Davis

I am but an architectural composer.

Alexander Jackson Davis

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

Alex Ebert

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

Arthur Erickson

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

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Arthur Erickson

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Arthur Erickson

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Arthur Erickson

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Arthur Erickson

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

Art Garfunkel

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente...

Amanda Hearst

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

Arne Jacobsen

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Arne Jacobsen

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

Adolf Loos

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you kn...

Andrew Luck

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

Andrew Pyper