Ernest Hemingway best Architecture Quotes – “Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
Tadao Ando best Architecture Quotes – “Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.”
Giambattista Valli best Architecture Quotes – “I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style, and that’s what my work is about.”
I. M. Pei best Architecture Quotes – “A lasting architecture has to have roots.”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture, like dance, is also a language – one that everybody understands.”
Cathy McMorris Rodgers best Architecture Quotes – “If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress.”
Rafael Vinoly best Architecture Quotes – “Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don’t fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.”
Bernard Levin best Architecture Quotes – “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?”
Helmut Jahn best Architecture Quotes – “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?”
Moshe Safdie best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”
Dante Ferretti best Architecture Quotes – “I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.”
Frei Otto best Architecture Quotes – “My architecture is the architecture of survival.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.”
Lord Byron best Architecture Quotes – “A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Leon Krier best Architecture Quotes – “I don’t build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.”