Top 300 Most Famous Architecture Quotes of All Time

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.-Nancy Banks Smith

I love a lot of things, and I’m pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I’d be an obsessive hairdresser.-Gates McFadden

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.-Malcolm Wallop

Architecture is my work, and I’ve spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.-Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is invention. -Oscar Niemeyer

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. -Juan Goytisolo

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. -Barry Mann

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. -Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. -Oscar Niemeyer

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. -Oksana Baiul

I would fix other people’s lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. -William Devane

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. -Michael Tilson Thomas

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best. -Ben Nicholson

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. -Jay Chiat

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. -Jay Chiat

Architecture aims at Eternity.-Christopher Wren

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.-James Wyatt

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.-Richard Meier

Architecture is politics.-Mitchell Kapor

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?-Bernard Levin

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. -Gustav Stickley