Mario Botta best Architecture Quotes – “To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject – architecture – that I had already faced in building some small houses.”
Marc Newson best Architecture Quotes – “People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.”
Alexandre de Betak best Architecture Quotes – “I love ’70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.”
Virginia Postrel best Architecture Quotes – “A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you’ll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you’ll write screeds against philistine mass culture.”
Mario Botta best Architecture Quotes – “Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.”
Mario Botta best Architecture Quotes – “Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It’s like a skin or a skull, but you don’t know what’s inside.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.”
Kelly Wearstler best Architecture Quotes – “I’m a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.”
Tim Gunn best Architecture Quotes – “I don’t know why I’ve always been so captivated by architecture.”
Bjarke Ingels best Architecture Quotes – “I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It’s more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.”
Renzo Piano best Architecture Quotes – “I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was – and is – a builder in my family.”
Zaha Hadid best Architecture Quotes – “Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people’s lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.”
Glenn Ligon best Architecture Quotes – “I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.”
Jay Chiat best Architecture Quotes – “The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.”
Rem Koolhaas best Architecture Quotes – “Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.”