292 architecture Quotes to share with friends and relatives

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism? – Stephen Bayley

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. – Prince Of Wales Charles

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit — if totally different in form — from all the romantic architecture of the past. – Dan Cruickshank

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

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults – Curtis W. Fentress

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be – Curtis W. Fentress

It takes a great client to create great architecture. – Curtis W. Fentress

Our work is really about taking the best of what is in a place and working that into a project. Wed like to take your vision and goals and weave that into all the bricks and mortar and steel and glass put together, along with all the functional things that we need to make the airport work better. – Curtis W. Fentress

Dont fight forces, use them. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy. – Walter Gropius

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. – Benjamin Haydon

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are. – Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe