Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Christ, Jesus | Architecture


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.

Thom Mayne | Architecture


You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Walter Russell Mead | Architecture


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.

Ben Nicholson | Architecture


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.

Goldwin Smith | Architecture


Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mull | 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.

Tadao Ando | Architecture


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

Daniel Libeskind | Architecture


When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Tadao Ando | 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.

Roman Coppola | Architecture


When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Juan Goytisolo | Architecture


What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

Tony Hale | Architecture


Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn | Architecture


What people want, above all, is order.

Stephen Gardiner | Architecture


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.

Charlotte Bunch | Architecture


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?

Bernard Levin | Architecture


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.

Tony Scott | Architecture


We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Alvar Aalto | Architecture


We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill | Architecture


We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

John Ruskin | Architecture


We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Minoru Yamasaki | Architecture


We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Arthur Erickson | Architecture


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

Levon Helm | Architecture


Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Maya Lin | Architecture


Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Arthur Erickson | Architecture


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

Stephen Gardiner | Architecture


Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

Jo Nesbo | Architecture


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

Robert Palmer | Architecture


Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson | Architecture


To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei | Architecture


To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Daniel Libeskind | Architecture


To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Martha Graham | Architecture


To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Le Corbusier | Architecture


Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Antonio Gaudi | Architecture


They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Henry David Thoreau | Architecture


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

Edwin Lutyens | Architecture


There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

James H. Breasted | Architecture


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.

Kenzo Tange | Architecture


There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

John Baldacci | Architecture


There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton | Architecture


The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Adolf Loos | Architecture


The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Arthur Erickson | Architecture


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

Federico Garcia Lorca | Architecture


The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Salvador Dali | Architecture


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

Jay Chiat | Architecture


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

Tadao Ando | Architecture


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.

Ian Hamilton Finlay | Architecture


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

Thomas Reid | Architecture


The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Harry Seidler | Architecture


The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Maya Lin | Architecture


The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Architecture


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.

Mukesh Ambani | Architecture


The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Christopher Nolan | Architecture


The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Arthur Erickson | Architecture


The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright | Architecture


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

Stephen Gardiner | Architecture


The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Thomas a Kempis | Architecture


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

Ralph Erskine | Architecture


The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner | Architecture


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.

Rem Koolhaas | Architecture


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

Jay Chiat | Architecture


The higher the building the lower the morals.

Noel Coward | Architecture


The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman | Architecture


The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg | Architecture


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

Stephen Gardiner | Architecture


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

Stephen Gardiner | Architecture


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

Michael Graves | Architecture


The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Robert A. M. Stern | Architecture


The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson | Architecture


The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Russell Lynes | Architecture


The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

John Irving | Architecture


The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Nick Clegg | Architecture


The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

Havelock Ellis | Architecture


The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Helmut Jahn | Architecture


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

George Lamming | Architecture


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

Joel Coen | Architecture


The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Voltaire | Architecture


The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Helmut Jahn | Architecture


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.

Thom Mayne | Architecture


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.

Jim Woodring | Architecture


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

Kenzo Tange | Architecture


Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin | Architecture


Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway | Architecture


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

Tadao Ando | Architecture


Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Arthur Erickson | Architecture


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.

Minoru Yamasaki | Architecture


Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Richard Meier | Architecture


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

James Wyatt | Architecture


Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Arthur Erickson | Architecture


Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway | Architecture


Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Arne Jacobsen | Architecture


Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Larry Wall | Architecture


Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde | Architecture


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

Marc Newson | 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.

Rem Koolhaas | Architecture


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

Robert Smithson | Architecture


Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright | Architecture


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

Kenneth Clark | Architecture


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.

Oksana Baiul | Architecture


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

Joseph Kosinski | Architecture


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.

Marilyn Hacker | Architecture


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