Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – “Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefu…”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.”
Architecture Quotes
Ma Yansong – “Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He’s from South America, where …”
Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He’s from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that.”
Cass Sunstein – “If you have an architecture of control, let’s say, where you se…”
Cass Sunstein best Architecture Quotes – “If you have an architecture of control, let’s say, where you select in advance everything that’s going to affect your life, then you’re going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature… Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.”
Cesar Pelli – “Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible …”
Cesar Pelli best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn’t that wonderful?”
Santiago Calatrava – “You must understand the difference between being an archit…”
Santiago Calatrava best Architecture Quotes – “You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone.”
Charles Eames – “In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more dire…”
Charles Eames best Architecture Quotes – “In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.”
Maya Lin – “The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually…”
Maya Lin best Architecture Quotes – “The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it’s magical.”
Rudolf Steiner – “Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and w…”
Rudolf Steiner best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.”
Oscar Niemeyer – “It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any polit…”
Oscar Niemeyer best Architecture Quotes – “It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”
Michael Graves – “I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as …”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.”
I. M. Pei – “In northern architecture – the cathedrals of Europe and all the lit…”
I. M. Pei best Architecture Quotes – “In northern architecture – the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches – the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.”
Charles Jencks – “I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driv…”
Charles Jencks best Architecture Quotes – “I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.”
Cameron Mackintosh – “I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.…”
Cameron Mackintosh best Architecture Quotes – “I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.”
Walter Gropius – “Let us together create the new building of the future, which w…”
Walter Gropius best Architecture Quotes – “Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.”
Tadao Ando – “All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like t…”
Tadao Ando best Architecture Quotes – “All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.”