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Architecture Quotes

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

Mathematics Architecture Hat Face

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?

Nature Culture Architecture Legacy

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Architecture Body Know Want Human

One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.

Architecture Building You Hard Going

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

Vision Time Architecture Space You

I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

Jack Dangermond

Technology Architecture Practice Over

Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.

Home Architecture People City Me

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Alexander Jackson Davis

Architecture American Buildings Most

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Architecture Design Jewellery

It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

Good Time Myself Architecture Think

After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.

Architecture School College Harvard

In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.

Architecture Anonymity Long-Term Web

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Architecture Society Speak Language

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Science Art Architecture Breakfast

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Life Good Art Architecture Building

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

William Bennett

Education Architecture Soul Real

Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.

Beautiful Time Food Architecture Say

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

Good Money Architecture Construction

What people want, above all, is order.

Stephen Gardiner

Architecture People Want Order Above

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Architecture Fight Wild Greatest

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Thomas Heatherwick

Challenge Architecture Value Real

I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.

Architecture New York Dream New Here

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

Stephen Sprouse

Time Architecture School Fashion Go

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

Architecture Value Aesthetic Walking

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