The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It’s a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There’s nowhere else like it. – Claire Tomalin
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
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. – Charles Jencks
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site. – Martin Filler
If you look at the Earth without architecture, it’s sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it’s a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. – Peter Zumthor
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. – P. J. O’Rourke
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. – Moshe Safdie
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In ‘Double Dragon,’ we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. – D. B. Weiss
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. – Peter Eisenman
I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. – Narciso Rodriguez
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao… Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. – Frank Gehry
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. – Danny Rimer
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it. – Cesar Pelli
The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. – Cameron Sinclair
There’s a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it’s like architecture or mathematics. – Philip Treacy
‘Clothespin’ was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. – Claes Oldenburg
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal ‘cursus honorum’ before its practice could be undertaken. – Martin Filler
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. – Peter Zumthor
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
About 1998, when ‘Wide World of Sports’ and the ‘Footy Show’ came to an end for me, I couldn’t type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper. – Max Walker
I don’t really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. – Drew Barrymore
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. – Minoru Yamasaki