Vitruvius best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.”
Abi Morgan best Architecture Quotes – “I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.”
David Chipperfield best Architecture Quotes – “I suppose I’m trying to build an architecture that’s as timeless as possible, although we’re all creatures of our age.”
Tony Scott best Age Quotes – “We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.”
George Lucas best Architecture Quotes – “The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.”
David Chipperfield best Architecture Quotes – “Britain loves a bargain, but you don’t get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.”
Elizabeth Diller best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.”
Ed Davey best Architecture Quotes – “The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
Antoine Predock best Architecture Quotes – “The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.”
Stefan Sagmeister best Architecture Quotes – “Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I’m sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.”
Frank Gehry best Architecture Quotes – “Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. ‘The client made me do this.’ ‘The city made me do this.’ ‘Oh, the budget.’ I don’t believe that anymore.”
Neri Oxman best Architecture Quotes – “I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.”
Amanda Foreman best Architecture Quotes – “What makes ‘The Marriage of Souls’ such a wonderful book is Collins’s intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.”
Daniel Libeskind best Architecture Quotes – “Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It’s just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.”