Top 300 Most Famous Architecture Quotes of All Time

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

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

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. -Minoru Yamasaki

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. -Minoru Yamasaki

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

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. -Helmut Jahn

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. -Helmut Jahn

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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of. -John Irving

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. -Helmut Jahn

It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re able to achieve the same result? -Helmut Jahn

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. -Ernest Dimnet

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. -Charles Eames

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them. -Trey Parker

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. -Christopher Nolan

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

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it’s done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. -Maya Lin

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. -Maya Lin

Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. -Maya Lin

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. -Maya Lin

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. -Maya Lin

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it’s magical. -Maya Lin

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. -Ai Weiwei

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. -Quincy Jones

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. -Le Corbusier

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. -Arthur Erickson

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. -Arthur Erickson

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. -Arthur Erickson

I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. -Arne Jacobsen

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect’s task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting. -Arne Jacobsen