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Architecture Quotes

I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead.

– Hayden Christensen

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

– Helmut Jahn

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

– Guillaume Apollinaire

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

– Harry von Zell

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

– Helmut Jahn

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

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

– Havelock Ellis

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

– Harold Ramis

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

– Goldwin Smith

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

– Goldwin Smith

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

– Henry David Thoreau

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

– Harry Seidler

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

– Henry Paulson

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design.

– Herbert Simon

I am a failed architect, if I’m honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I’ve got really bad spatial awareness.

– Hannah Ware

To go back to architecture, what’s organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

– Greg Lynn

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

– Helmut Jahn

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?

– Helmut Jahn

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

– Helmut Jahn

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

– Harry Seidler

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

– Hugo Chavez

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

– George Hickenlooper

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

– John Ruskin

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

– Ian Hamilton Finlay

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

– Jim Rohn

I see music as fluid architecture.

– Joni Mitchell

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

– I. M. Pei

I am involved in the architecture of space.

– James Turrell

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

– John Updike

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

– Iain McGilchrist

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