Quote: A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire 1880-1918, Italian-born French Poet, Critic
Quote: In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Author: Nancy Banks-Smith
Quote: When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Author: Colleen C. Barrett
Quote: ''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
Author: Stephen Bayley 1951-, British Design Critic
Quote: Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Author: Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957, Romanian Sculptor
Quote: You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Author: Prince Of Wales Charles 1948-, Duke of Edinburgh, Son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
Quote: A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Quote: In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit -- if totally different in form -- from all the romantic architecture of the past.
Author: Dan Cruickshank
Quote: The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Author: Salvador Dali 1904-1989, Spanish Painter
Quote: The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.
Author: Ralph Erskine
Quote: Don't fight forces, use them.
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher
Quote: Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
Author: Walter Gropius 1883-1969, German Architect
Quote: Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Author: Walter Gropius 1883-1969, German Architect
Quote: The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
Author: Benjamin Haydon 1786-1846, British Artist
Quote: Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
Author: Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe
Quote: All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Author: Philip Johnson 1906-, American Architect and Theorist
Quote: Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Author: Philip Johnson 1906-, American Architect and Theorist
Quote: 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.
Author: Roy Lichtenstein 1923, American Artist
Quote: Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: Architecture is petrified music.
Author: Felix E. Schelling 1858-1945, American Educator
Quote: Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.
Author: Oswald Spengler 1880-1936, German Philosopher
Quote: Form ever follows function.
Author: Louis Henry Sullivan
Quote: True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
Author: E(lwyn) B(rooks) White 1899-1985, American Author, Editor
Quote: Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
Author: Thomas Wolfe 1931-, American Author, Journalist
Quote: A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959, American Architect
Quote: All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959, American Architect
Quote: The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959, American Architect