Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
Minoru Yamasaki

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
Tadao Ando

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
Luis Barragan

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
Parker Stevenson

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Richard Rogers

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Alvar Aalto

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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