Top 214 Architectural Quotes & Sayings

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

For an architect's son, I am remarkably unformed in my architectural tastes.

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Light is architectural. It is sculptural.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

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

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

Always beware an unsigned architectural design.

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

I am but an architectural composer.

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

I'm not an architectural composer.

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.

When I engaged the team at Mitchell Wall, it was clear from the beginning that this was a very special architectural firm.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

The structural or biogenetic relations of plant products as deduced from the recognizable architectural components of the molecules have been consistent guides in my investigations.

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and all, with help of architectural geniuses like Ustad Isa, Isa Mohammad Effendi and Puru of Persia. The result that came across was a fine piece of Mughal architecture, fused with Persian, Islamic, and Indian architectural styles; or is believed so by many.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.