Top 485 Architecture Quotes

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Federico Garcia Lorca

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

Shane Carruth

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Alvar Aalto

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Arthur Erickson

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

Andrew Pyper

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Alexandre de Betak

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

Cameron Sinclair

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