120 Construction Quotes on Marvels of Civil Engineering

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

If you examine this I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

If a building becomes architecture then it is art.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design it looks to the community.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Without this spirit Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it’s difficult to quantify the attachment.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course that’s both liberating and alarming.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college it can help reassure him that he does have that mind does have that soul.

My house is my refuge an emotional piece of architecture not a cold piece of convenience.

We all love musical architecture there’s no doubt about that.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Painting sculpture and architecture are finished but the art habit continues.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

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.

In fact it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn’t have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture the search for light and astonishing forms.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture it’s really difficult.

Of the individual poems some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

I don’t know why I’ve always been so captivated by architecture.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture as long as they are done properly.

If architecture had nothing to do with art it would be astonishingly easy to build houses but the architect’s task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.

In addressing a task one almost always has several possible options sometimes only a few and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

If architecture is as is sometimes said music set in concrete then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it’s a true story.

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.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning and that less will be based on our models.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

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.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

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.

Of course I know very little about architecture and the older I get the less I know.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a slow business and city planning even slower.

I don’t find Hollywood interesting so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Every one who has a heart however ignorant of architecture he may be feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Yet for my part deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It’s just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

I studied architecture in New York. So really I was very moved like everyone else to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

When I’m in London Claridge’s is a great favourite. I’m a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music architecture novels and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I’ve never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

I’ve always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

At this present time matter is still the best way to think of architecture but I’m not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

If you’re into architecture and you’re from the West everything is hors d’oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you’re led there. You can’t escape it.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth at it’s best.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami because of the people the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

I would fix other people’s lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

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

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.

Architecture is my work and I’ve spent my whole life at a drawing board but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Architecture is invention.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs the process will go on the organization will go on the growth will go on.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Architecture is involved with the world but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work like any art.

I’m often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That’s impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

You might say that when you step inside you’re entering a honorific space but that’s something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

In my experience if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg it’s modern architecture.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place of course. It affects me everywhere I see it as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me and I know I’ve paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect I just started my own little design studio.

I went to school for engineering I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them so I went to architecture school in New York.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.

I was a student at Columbia College actually in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out.

After about the first Millennium Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture which spread throughout Europe much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture not only in advanced technology allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel and the love involved. God it’s fantastic.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college but I’d done them because it was fun.

But after the time there I’d had it with fashion again so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard which didn’t last very long.

Architecture can’t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture or it isn’t real.

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.

I would’ve been intrigued by being a film director. I would’ve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

I like things that are kind of eclectic when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style and that’s what my work is about.

I feel however that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

I don’t believe in morality in architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

I like to play with architecture! It’s my favorite game.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

What is being called the UN ‘gender architecture’ is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Architecture is politics.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

First there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament but are clearly revealed a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion some polemic I think is good. It shows that people are interested people are involved.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.