Top 485 Architecture Quotes

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

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture.

Virginia Postrel

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Charles Jencks

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

Preston Sturges

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Less is more.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Martin Filler

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