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  • Architecture Quote #1

    Architecture aims at Eternity.

    Christopher Wren

  • Architecture Quote #2

    Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

    Jeremy Renner

  • Architecture Quote #3

    Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

    Adolf Loos

  • Architecture Quote #4

    Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  • Architecture Quote #5

    Architecture begins where engineering ends.

    Walter Gropius

  • Architecture Quote #6

    Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

    Alvar Aalto

  • Architecture Quote #7

    Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

    Frank Stella

  • Architecture Quote #8

    Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  • Architecture Quote #9

    Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  • Architecture Quote #10

    Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

    Arthur Erickson

  • Architecture Quote #11

    Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

    Christian de Portzamparc

  • Architecture Quote #12

    Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

    Frank Gehry

  • Architecture Quote #13

    Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

    David Chipperfield

  • Architecture Quote #14

    Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

    Peter Zumthor

  • Architecture Quote #15

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

    Moshe Safdie

  • Architecture Quote #16

    Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

    Victor Hugo

  • Architecture Quote #17

    Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

    Luis Barragan

  • Architecture Quote #18

    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

  • Architecture Quote #19

    Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

    Richard Rogers

  • Architecture Quote #20

    Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

    Thom Mayne

  • Architecture Quote #21

    Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

    Rem Koolhaas

  • Architecture Quote #22

    Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

    Thom Mayne

  • Architecture Quote #23

    Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

    Antoine Predock

  • Architecture Quote #24

    Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

    Vitruvius

  • Architecture Quote #25

    Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

    Frank Gehry

  • Architecture Quote #26

    Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

    Richard Rogers

  • Architecture Quote #27

    Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

    Renzo Piano

  • Architecture Quote #28

    Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

    Julia Morgan

  • Architecture Quote #29

    Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

    Annabelle Selldorf

  • Architecture Quote #30

    Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

    Richard Rogers

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