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

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

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

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Henry Ellis

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

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

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

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

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