Architecture Quotes

Solomon, I have surpassed thee.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is an undiscovered treasure. It punches below its weight internationally.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Architecture is invention.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.