Quotes by Architecture Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral. Robin Boyd designarchitecturethinking The suburb was the major element of Australian society. Robin Boyd australianelementsarchitecture There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last Roger Scruton architecturelastsneeds There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure Roger Scruton linesarchitecturemay If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it. Roger Scruton architectureuselesswant Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. Roland Barthes architectureexpressiondream I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. Roy Lichtenstein architectureart I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art. Roy Lichtenstein architectureartthinking An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle. RZA becomingarchitecturehome The history of art is the history of revivals. Samuel Butler revivalarchitectureart The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional. Samuel Mockbee architectureeverydayinspiration The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. Samuel engagementarchitecturepractice Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. Samuel social-valuesaddressesarchitecture I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. Santiago Calatrava sculpturearchitectureart I am always searching for more light and space. Santiago Calatrava architecturespacelight Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you. Santiago Calatrava disciplinearchitecturemature To build is to be robbed. Samuel Johnson architecture A Gothic church is a petrified religion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge gothicarchitecturechurch Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters. Shigeru Ban architecturehousepeople Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. Shigeru Ban architecturestarswant«1617181920212223242526»
