Quotes and Sayings about Quotes and Sayings about Architecture

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Edwin Lutyens

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

George Lamming

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Graves

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Thomas Reid

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Jean Nouvel

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

Jean Nouvel

I think architecture has to be a gift.

Jean Nouvel

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Charlotte Bunch

Architecture is politics.

Mitchell Kapor

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Bernard Levin

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.

Giambattista Valli

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

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

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

James Wyatt

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

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Richard Meier

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Kenzo Tange

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

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Michael Graves

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Michael Graves

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

Stephen Sprouse

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

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

James Maslow

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Walter Russell Mead

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