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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.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Quotes by Richard Meier

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Quotes by Renzo Piano

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply...

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

Telco cloud and virtualization remain a clear priority for us, and we became the first vendor to supply a commercial telco cloud solution compliant with ETSI Architecture for end-to-end voice-over-LTE services.

Quotes by Rajeev Suri

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what...

Quotes by Rafael Vinoly

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Quotes by Rafael Moneo

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

Quotes by Preston Sturges

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

Quotes by Pranav Mistry

Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind.

Quotes by Pranav Mistry

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

Quotes by Piet Mondrian

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

Quotes by Philip Treacy

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.