Quotes About Architecture

Form follows finances instead of function.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

Roman engineering The Romans accomplished amazing feats of engineering as they built roads, bridges, and aqueducts (bridges for water conduits) across their empire. This 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct at Segovia, in central Spain, has 128 arches. No mortar was used to cement the large blocks of granite together. Good roads were one of the reasons for the success of the Roman Empire. They allowed troops and supplies to be moved swiftly, before the enemy could either attack or escape.

Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work and go about our daily business," wrote social critic James Howard Kunstler in 1996. "We drive up and down the gruesome, tragic suburban boulevards of commerce, and we're overwhelmed at the fantastic, awesome, stupefying ugliness of absolutely everything in sight… as though the whole thing had been designed by some diabolical force bent on making human beings miserable.

the Galleria, the world's first covered shopping mall—

There is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like gargoyles.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

The future of architecture is culture.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.