Maya Lin best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Mario Botta best Architecture Quotes – “In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu best Architecture Quotes – “I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there’s no music. Without rhythm, there’s no cinema. Without rhythm, there’s no architecture.”
Philip Johnson best Architecture Quotes – “The future of architecture is culture.”
Ian Mckellen best Architecture Quotes – “Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend… they can all go drifting by unseen if you’re not careful.”
Gretchen Rubin best Architecture Quotes – “It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.”
Peter Eisenman best Architecture Quotes – “I don’t believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: ‘So what else is new?'”
Rem Koolhaas best Architecture Quotes – “Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”
Iain McGilchrist best Architecture Quotes – “The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.”
John Irving best Architecture Quotes – “The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.”
Jean Nouvel best Architecture Quotes – “I like to play with architecture! It’s my favorite game.”
Louis Kahn best Architecture Quotes – “Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
Jhumpa Lahiri best Architecture Quotes – “In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.”