Top 485 Architecture Quotes

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

Martin Filler

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Philip Warren Anderson

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Hussein Chalayan

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

David Chipperfield

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

David Chipperfield

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

David Chipperfield

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

John Irving

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