Architecture Quotes

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

John Ruskin

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

John Ruskin

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

Jason Silva

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

John Updike

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

James Wyatt

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Jim Woodring

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Kenneth Clark

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

Kevin McCloud

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Kenzo Tange

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Kenzo Tange

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

Kelly Wearstler

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Luis Barragan

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Luis Barragan

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Le Corbusier

A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Le Corbusier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Leon Krier

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Leon Krier

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Louis Kahn

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Louis Kahn