Architecture Quotes

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Richard Rogers

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Richard Rogers

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

Richard Rogers

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.

Robert Wilson

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Roger Waters

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What people want, above all, is order.

Stephen Gardiner

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Stephen Gardiner

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Stephen Gardiner

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Stephen Gardiner

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

Steven Holl

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail...

Steven Holl

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

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

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't mean...

Sufjan Stevens

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Tadao Ando

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Tadao Ando

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Tadao Ando