Quotes and Sayings About Architecture

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
-- A. L. Rowse

#Stones #Might #Architecture

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Style #Unapologetic #Architecture

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Creative #Synthesis #Architecture

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp

#Sarcastic #Art #Architecture

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
-- Aldo Rossi

#Cities #Architecture #Study

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
-- Aldo Rossi

#Technique #Architecture #Surprise

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Architecture #Sin #Perceive

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
-- Alex Winter

#Play #Architecture #Novel

I am but an architectural composer.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

#Architecture #Composer

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

#Architecture #Building #Architect

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Civilization #Culture #Architecture

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Cities #Architecture #Problem

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Men #Architecture

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Ties #Earth #Architecture

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Giving #Tasks #Architecture

Tradition is a challenge to innovation..
-- Alvaro Siza Vieira

#Challenges #Innovation #Architecture

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

#Passion #Able #Architecture

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Architecture #Mythology

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Eye #Secret #Architecture

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.
-- Antoine Predock

#Long #Landscape #Architecture

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Color #Architecture #Planes

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Order #Architecture #Building

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#May #Tasks #Architecture

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Art #Architecture #Building

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

#Long #Done #Architecture

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Architecture

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

#Voice #Way #Architecture

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
-- Arthur Erickson

#Doe #Spirit #Architecture

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Art #Enemy #Architecture

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
-- Ayn Rand

#Integrity #Men #Architecture