Top 485 Architecture Quotes

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

John Ruskin

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.

Robert Wilson

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Rem Koolhaas

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

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

Art Garfunkel

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

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

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

Antoine Predock

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

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

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