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Architecture Quotes

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Architecture Over Interior Decoration

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Architecture Bridges Invisible Most

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

Architecture School College Me Drive

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

History Architecture Say Understand

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

Music Architecture Creative Theatre

My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

Elizabeth Diller

Work Architecture Practice Space

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Arthur Erickson

Architecture Beginning Voice Quiet

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

Time Culture Architecture Start You

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Music Architecture Me Wealth Always

Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.

Elizabeth Diller

Technology Politics Architecture

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Architecture Long Buildings Done See

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Life Work Architecture Drawing Human

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Life Character Art Architecture

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

David Chipperfield

Good Architecture Interesting You Up

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Antoine Predock

Time Architecture Me Think House

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

Experience Architecture Feel You

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

Art Architecture Me Alive Dead

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Politics Architecture Thought Film

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

Annabelle Selldorf

Technology Architecture I Am Reading

A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.

Architecture City Treat Trees More

Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that.

Time Architecture Management Camera

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Architecture Design More Idea Route

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Philip Warren Anderson

Art Culture Architecture Game Play

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

Culture Architecture Believe Debate

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