Catherine Hardwicke best Architecture Quotes – “When you’re in a creative flow with somebody – and I had this back in architecture school – you’re just so passionate about what you’re doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you’ll be madly in love with them. It’s just that thrill of creating.”
Carlos Slim best Architecture Quotes – “The artistic part of us all – I think that the easiest way to appreciate this – is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.”
Issey Miyake best Architecture Quotes – “Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.”
Oscar Niemeyer best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Christian de Portzamparc best Architecture Quotes – “In the ’60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.”
Zaha Hadid best Architecture Quotes – “As a woman, I’m expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don’t design nice buildings – I don’t like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.”
Sara Bareilles best Architecture Quotes – “Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it’s a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets – it’s an incredible place to be.”
Helmut Jahn best Architecture Quotes – “I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.”
I. M. Pei best Architecture Quotes – “I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.”
Alvar Aalto best Architecture Quotes – “Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.”
Charlie Rose best Architecture Quotes – “I would’ve been intrigued by being a film director. I would’ve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.”
David Josiah Brewer best Architecture Quotes – “Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire – but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.”
Frei Otto best Architecture Quotes – “Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.”