Architecture Quotes

"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
-J. Russell Lynes

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
-Philip Johnson

"An architect is the drawer of dreams."
-Grace Mcgarvie

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

"[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt."
-Robert Moses

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
-Philip Johnson

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

"The fundamental architecture and building blocks are right."
-Phil Hester

"Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!"
-Michelle Rodriguez

"If you have to have a ramp, try to respect the architecture."
-Deb Michener

"I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year."
-Barry Mann

"I always wanted to study abroad. Art and architecture are what fascinate me."
-Matthew Boland

"It's people only that you see, there's very little architecture that you see inside."
-Jacques Herzog

"There were a lot of architecture and structural things that they had to grind out."
-Jane Mcvey

"The house has a degree of graciousness that is rare in new architecture."
-John Mashek

"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
-Le Corbusier

"We wanted it very much to fit in with the look, feel and architecture of the community."
-Scott Rasmussen

"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
-Richard Meier

"One Hundred Years of Architecture."
-Jeremy Strick

"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
-Michael Graves

"The word 'open' never appeared. There is no open architecture."
-Herb Schneider

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
-Louis Kahn

"Architecture is one part science, one part craft and two parts art."
-David Rutten

"This is the architecture everybody else is using."
-Scott Cooper

"Not only are they destroying architecture of note, they are destroying history."
-David Bahlman

"The topology will drive the architecture."
-Bill Tolpegin