Top 485 Architecture Quotes

$I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.$

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Maya Lin

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

P. J. O'Rourke

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Bjarke Ingels

We have to base architecture on the environment.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Toyo Ito

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

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

Tadao Ando

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Michael Graves

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Ayn Rand

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

Alvar Aalto

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.

Antoine Predock

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

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

Antoine Predock

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