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Architecture Quotes

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When, in architecture, one uses a fixed unit and combinations of it, to produce harmony, the effect should be most striking and apparent... as it is in music by the measured beat and in poetry by the cadence and rhythm.

Ernest Flagg Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Architecture is frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet What we live by (1932)

A city’s architecture is always a bit like a constructed, psychological version of its people.

Jacques Herzog

My aim has always been modest; I wanted to transform the arranged marriage (of art and architecture) into a love match.

Marcelle Ferron

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me — the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Barbara Kruger

I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

Frank Gehry Helen D. Hume (2010)

When we say architecture, we include the social, political and économie context. Architecture of any sort is in fact the inévitable background, support and frame of any work.

Daniel Buren Daniel Buren (1979)

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

Frank Gehry The Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989)

[ Brancusi ] has had more influence on my work than most architects.

Frank Gehry Frank Gehry in: Caroline Evensen Lazo (2005)

These three remarkable circumstances are of great value to architects, as they can be put in the specifications and can be depended upon as absolute proof of the safety of the construction.

Rafael Guastavino Essay on The Theory and History of Cohesive Construction (1892)

I'm not arguing, incidentally, for a confusion of art and architecture, a fashion now, but for a coherent relationship. Therefore, within the capacity of one person or of a small group, the relationship of all visible things should be considered.

Donald Judd

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

Charles III

We are not lacking of materiality. We are lacking of good relationships, but this is something the process of construction and architecture can... provide.

Anna Heringer Architecture is a Tool to Improve Lives (2021)

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Attributed

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