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Architecture Quotes

Buildings that shape how we think about places.

One voice here admits thinking about architecture constantly, even dreaming about it, while flatly calling the field unnecessarily difficult. See Design quotes for related thoughts on the creative process behind it.

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.

Quotes by Vitruvius

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Quotes by Vitruvius

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Quotes by Toyo Ito

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Quotes by Toyo Ito

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Quotes by Toyo Ito

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

Quotes by Tony Scott

When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd...

Quotes by Tom Anderson

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Quotes by Tim Gunn

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Quotes by Thomas Reid

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am...

Quotes by Taylor Schilling

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Quotes by Tadao Ando

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

Quotes by 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.

Quotes by Tadao Ando

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Quotes by Tadao Ando

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

Quotes by T. E. Lawrence

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Quotes by Sydney Pollack

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the "Architecture" quotes page about?
A mix of a big-picture historical observation about invention and technology, plus personal reflections on how consuming and difficult architectural thinking can be.
What does the "steamboat" quote say?
It makes a historical point about technology like "the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane," noting that while "not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world," that world played a major role in popularizing and extending them. It's presented as the speaker's own historical framing.
Is there a quote about architecture being difficult?
Yes, a blunt one: "Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough."
Is there a quote about someone thinking about architecture constantly?
Yes: "I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes" — describing it as an all-consuming preoccupation.
Is there an opinion about a specific city's architecture?
Yes — someone says they "really love Miami," but adds they don't "think the architecture matches the city," calling it "a bit too commercial." Design quotes covers related themes.

Another take criticizes a beloved city's architecture for feeling too commercial and out of step with the place itself, a reminder that not every quote here is purely admiring. Explore Art quotes and Good quotes for more.