422 Architecture Quotes for You to Enjoy

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. Rudolf Steiner

Architecture Space Organization Project Outside Human Human Body Then Body Specific

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. Ruta Sepetys

Music Food Experience Architecture Diversity Every Corner Local Unlike City Woven Superstitions New Around Cultural Cultural Diversity New Orleans America Any Story Sensory Even Orleans Levels Lurking

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. Sammy Cahn

Architecture Song Every Dictates Title

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Architecture Made Principle Gothic Infinity Imaginable

I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with. Scott Foley

Beautiful Architecture Think Something Clean Also Attribute Traditional Years Lines Upbringing Form Midwest Warm Tokyo Thing Palette Four Appreciate

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. Sheldon Whitehouse

Science Architecture Control Others Attack Taken Powered Industry Built Methods Up Deny Fuel Tobacco Fossil Fossil Fuel Originally

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. Stanley B. Prusiner

History Science Architecture Opportunity Economics Numerous Extraordinarily Philosophy Besides Russian Had Study Knowledgeable Courses Taught The History Of Professors

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. Stefan Sagmeister

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. Stephen Gardiner

Architecture Community Respected Scale Both Individual Georgian

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. Stephen Gardiner

Architecture States Victorian Straight England United United States Copied

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. Stephen Gardiner

Architecture Logic Could Aesthetic Which Formula Applied Universally Presented

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. Stephen Gardiner

Great Architecture Light Detail Delicacy Misty Very Subtle English Soft

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. Stephen Gardiner

Architecture Living More Remembering Dead Concerned Than Contribution Egyptian

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects. Steven Holl

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. Susan Vreeland

Architecture Looking Settings Books States Could Absorb Impressionist Clothing Clues Many Paintings United United States Museums

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. Sydney Pollack

Art Photography Architecture Writing Dance Painting Every Way Some Almost Art Form Form Mean Aspect Useful Certainly Film

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. Tadao Ando

Future People Architecture Inspire Own Resources Would Like Move Use

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. Tadao Ando

You Change Architecture Will Become Speed Makes Wonder

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. Tadao Ando

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. Tadao Ando

Architecture Structures Wooden Japanese Regular Regular Basis Based Basis Need

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. Thom Mayne

Work Art Time Architecture World Logic Like Most Involved Terms Operate Parts Because Within Traditional Same Any Same Time Cannot Autonomy Explained Interesting Certain

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