Top 485 Architecture Quotes

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Louis Sullivan

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Charlie Rose

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

Patricia Marx

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

Zaha Hadid

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Michael Graves

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Richard Rogers

I see music as fluid architecture.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Joni Mitchell

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

Dante Ferretti

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Peter Eisenman

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Charles Eames

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