Kenneth Clark best Architecture Quotes – “Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.”
Sydney Pollack best Architecture Quotes – “If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.”
Louis Kahn best Architecture Quotes – “Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”
Rem Koolhaas best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture is a rare collective profession: it’s always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.”
Tadao Ando best Architecture Quotes – “I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.”
Bernard Tschumi best Architecture Quotes – “My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn’t impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.”
Thom Mayne best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.”
Charles Jencks best Architecture Quotes – “Mies van der Rohe’s architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.”
Chelsea Cain best Architecture Quotes – “I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.”
Cesar Pelli best Architecture Quotes – “I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture – you always can hope for another project to design.”
I. M. Pei best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.”
James Turrell best Architecture Quotes – “I am involved in the architecture of space.”
Marcus Brigstocke best Architecture Quotes – “I’ve spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It’s also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains – and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.”
Nancy Banks Smith best Architecture Quotes – “In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.”
Helmut Jahn best Architecture Quotes – “The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.”