Bjarke Ingels best Architecture Quotes – “I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don’t come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.”
Frank Gehry best Architecture Quotes – “Chicago’s one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.”
John Ruskin best Architecture Quotes – “It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
Ai Weiwei best Architecture Quotes – “I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron’s invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.”
Ruta Sepetys best Architecture Quotes – “New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture – even the local superstitions. It’s a sensory experience on all levels and there’s a story lurking around every corner.”
Colleen Atwood best Architecture Quotes – “I like the architecture of lingerie.”
Tadao Ando best Architecture Quotes – “Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.”
Bjarke Ingels best Architecture Quotes – “I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “You can never draw enough or read enough – reading about architecture, in other words.”
Parker Stevenson best Architecture Quotes – “My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.”
Toyo Ito best Architecture Quotes – “I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton best Architecture Quotes – “I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”
Bob Barr best Architecture Quotes – “Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.”
Edwin Lutyens best Architecture Quotes – “In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through – if it is labored, it fails.”
George Hickenlooper best Architecture Quotes – “I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.”