Architecture Quotes

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Iain McGilchrist

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

Imogen Poots

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

Joseph Altuzarra

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

Joel Coen

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

Janet Echelman

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Joe Elliott

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Juan Goytisolo

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

John Irving

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Joseph Kosinski

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

Jaime Lerner

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Julia Morgan

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Jean Nouvel

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

Jean Nouvel

I think architecture has to be a gift.

Jean Nouvel

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House o...

Jo Nesbo

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

John Osborne

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

James Polshek

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

John Portman

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Joshua Prince-Ramus