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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.

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.

Quotes by Ron Eglash

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Quotes by Roman Coppola

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Quotes by Roger Waters

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

Quotes by Robin Lord Taylor

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.

Quotes by Robert Wilson

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Quotes by Robert Smithson

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Quotes by Robert Palmer

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Quotes by Robert A. M. Stern

We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

Quotes by Rob Pike

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told...

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Quotes by Richard Rogers

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Quotes by Richard Rogers

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Quotes by Richard Rogers

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Quotes by Richard Rogers

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

Quotes by Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Quotes by Richard Rogers

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

Quotes by Richard Rogers

Architecture is always political.

Quotes by Richard Rogers

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Quotes by Richard Meier

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Quotes by Richard Meier

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.