Architecture Quotes

I like the architecture of lingerie.

Colleen Atwood

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

Clayton M. Christensen

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

Catherine Deneuve

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Christian Dior

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Charles Jencks

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Christopher Nolan

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

Claes Oldenburg

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the c...

Christian de Portzamparc

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

Cameron Sinclair

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

Dan Brown

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Drew Barrymore

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

David Chipperfield

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

Daniel Libeskind

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Daniel Libeskind

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Daniel Libeskind

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Dieter Rams

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

Frank Gehry