Top 485 Architecture Quotes

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Enid Nemy

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

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

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

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

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.

David Chipperfield

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