I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. – Maya Lin
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. – Maya Lin
I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them. – Trey Parker
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. – Christopher Nolan
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. – Tadao Ando
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. – Rem Koolhaas
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. – Ernest Dimnet
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. – Charles Eames
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of. – John Irving
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. – Helmut Jahn
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. – Helmut Jahn
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
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
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. – Minoru Yamasaki
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. – Arne Jacobsen
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. – Stephen Gardiner
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. – Stephen Gardiner
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. – Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. – Stephen Gardiner
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. – Stephen Gardiner
