Architecture Quotes

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Alvar Aalto


The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Arthur Erickson


Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson


I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
Catherine Deneuve


Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson


To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier


Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
Oscar Niemeyer


I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
Brad Pitt


If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.
Moby


If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Quincy Jones


Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
Arthur Erickson


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


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


I see music as fluid architecture.
Joni Mitchell


Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
Frank Gehry


If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen


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?
Jeremy Renner


I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando


Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Arthur Erickson

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
Arthur Erickson


The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
Arthur Erickson


The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
Arthur Erickson


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


I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
Frank Gehry


Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
Frank Gehry