Quotes About Architecture

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

A year before I met Mark Brydon - he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko - I was living in Sheffield with a guy who was studying architecture. I used to go to his college and crash the lectures there. I had enrolled to do a fine art course, but then I met Mark, and we signed a record deal instead.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.

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.

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.

You could spend your time with your nose buried in a guidebook, but Amsterdam really is best explored on foot, so you can stumble upon the city's hidden gems. The architecture and the beauty of some of the buildings is also wonderful.

The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

I've always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn't until I went to architecture school, though, that I really loved school work.

Regency buildings are often said to lack the serenity of their early Georgian predecessors, or the intense scholarship of the subsequent Gothic revival.

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Writing is architectural. Letters become words, and words become sentences, and sentences become paragraphs, and paragraphs become chapters and chapters become books.

The house looked like some gay architect had gotten drunk and watched Gone with the Wind.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.