Top 485 Architecture Quotes

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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.

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

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Charles Jencks

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

Nate Berkus

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

Carlos Slim

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

Martin Filler

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

Renzo Piano

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Thomas a Kempis

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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