Quotes by Architecture The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. Voltaire architecturefightinghistory To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account. Wade Guyton architecturespacetaken A languid janitor bears Wallace Stevens janitorarchitecturebears Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius engineeringdesignarchitecture A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. Walter Gropius moderndemocracyarchitecture Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect. Walter Gropius architecturejobsneeds All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it. Walt Whitman look-uparchitecturelooks I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it. Will Alsop architectureinspirationbelieve The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future. William Gibson architecturetryinggiving Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.' William McDonough architectureenergymen Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. Winston Damarillo wellssourcearchitecture Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. Witold Rybczynski architecturepracticeart Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose. Wu Guanzhong chinesearchitecturepurpose Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich. William Shakespeare richarchitecturedwelling Literature is painting, architecture, and music. Yevgeny Zamyatin paintingarchitectureliterature There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? Zaha Hadid degreesarchitecturesticks Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless Zaha Hadid architecturewritinglooks Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. Zaha Hadid architecturefashionspace I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. Zaha Hadid architecturedreamthinking It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies Zaha Hadid buildingarchitecturetoday«1920212223242526272829»
