Top 485 Architecture Quotes

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.