Famous Quotes About architecture

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

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

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

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.