Architecture Quotes - page 2

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. (Tadao Ando)
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. View quote
Tadao Ando
We have to base architecture on the environment. View quote
Toyo Ito
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity. View quote
Frank Gehry
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. View quote
Herbert Simon
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts. View quote
Joseph Addison
Nor does complexity deny the valid simplification which is part of the process of analysis, and even a method of achieving complex architecture itself. (Robert Venturi)
I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. View quote
Robert Venturi
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. View quote
Federico García Lorca
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. View quote
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. View quote
Ernest Dimnet
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. View quote
Martin Mull
Men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture. View quote
Vitruvius
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. View quote
Vitruvius
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. (Minoru Yamasaki)
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. View quote
Peter Zumthor
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. View quote
Peter Zumthor
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. View quote
Renzo Piano
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. View quote
Renzo Piano