Architecture Quotes

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Moshe Safdie

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Moshe Safdie

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Malcolm Wallop

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Minoru Yamasaki

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

Minoru Yamasaki

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Minoru Yamasaki

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

Neil Denari

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

Nathaniel Kahn

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

Nate Lowman

I'm very interested in architecture.

Nikki Sixx

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

Oksana Baiul

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Oscar Niemeyer

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Oscar Niemeyer

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

Oscar Niemeyer

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

Oren Peli

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Eisenman

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

Peter Eisenman

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Peter Eisenman

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

Peter Eisenman

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is t...

Philip Johnson

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

P. J. O'Rourke