Famous Quotes

"Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time."

Richard Meier on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Richard Meier

• "An important work of architecture will create polemics."

• "Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."