287 Quotes Regarding Architecture


I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
Rem Koolhaas

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

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Larry Wall

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
Frank Gehry

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
Ai Weiwei

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

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
Helmut Jahn

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
Helmut Jahn

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
Helmut Jahn

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Helmut Jahn

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
Caroline Wozniacki

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

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
Stephen Gardiner

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
Stephen Gardiner

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Stephen Gardiner