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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.

As a mature and responsible nation, one of India's foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.

Quotes by Sushma Swaraj

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

Quotes by Steven Holl

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the...

Quotes by Steven Holl

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Quotes by Steven Holl

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

Quotes by Stephen Sprouse

What people want, above all, is order.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in...

Quotes by Stefan Sagmeister

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

Quotes by Stanley B. Prusiner

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

Quotes by Sharon Horgan

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can...

Quotes by Shane Carruth

I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do...

Quotes by Scott Foley

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.