Richard Rogers best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Peter Falk best Architecture Quotes – “I love Chicago. It’s one of the great cities. I’m crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.”
Alan Menken best Architecture Quotes – “I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There’s a lot of architecture in our songs.”
Ron Eglash best Architecture Quotes – “I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.”
Helmut Jahn best Architecture Quotes – “The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.”
Louis Kahn best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.”
Le Corbusier best Architecture Quotes – “To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
Darryl Pinckney best Architecture Quotes – “‘Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto’ is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.”
John Ruskin best Architecture Quotes – “It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
Tadao Ando best Architecture Quotes – “All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it’s difficult to quantify the attachment.”
Peter Marino best Architecture Quotes – “I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that’s very pop. I don’t want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.”
Alvar Aalto best Architecture Quotes – “God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.”
Bayard Taylor best Architecture Quotes – “Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.”
Jason Silva best Architecture Quotes – “I’m not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”