Top 485 Architecture Quotes

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

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

Jaime Lerner

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

I. M. Pei

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'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. M. Pei

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

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

Parker Stevenson

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Marc Newson

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

Vera Wang

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.

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.

Peter Zumthor

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Richard Rogers

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.

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.

Frank Gehry

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

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