Famous Quotes
- At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
- Martin Puryear on Architecture
- At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
- Ben Nicholson on Architecture
- Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
- Bruce Jackson on Architecture
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
- Alvar Aalto on Architecture
- Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
- John Portman on Architecture
- But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
- Stephen Sprouse on Architecture
- But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
- Thom Mayne on Architecture
- But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.
- Paul Bettany on Architecture
- But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
- Louis Sullivan on Architecture
- But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
- Michael Tilson Thomas on Architecture
- Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
- Anthony Holden on Architecture
- Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
- Bob Barr on Architecture
- Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
- Daniel Libeskind on Architecture
- Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
- Antonio Gaudi on Architecture
- Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
- Louis Kahn on Architecture
- Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
- Hugo Chavez on Architecture
- Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
- Jimmy Breslin on Architecture
- Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
- Malcolm Wallop on Architecture
- Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
- Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
- Adolf Loos on Architecture
- Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
- John Osborne on Architecture
- Each new situation requires a new architecture.
- Jean Nouvel on Architecture
- Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
- Herbert Simon on Architecture
- Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
- Rem Koolhaas on Architecture
- Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
- Enid Nemy on Architecture
- Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
- Helmut Jahn 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
- Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- Samuel Butler on Architecture
- Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
- Goldwin Smith on Architecture
- Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
- Louis Kahn on Architecture
- Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
- Coco Chanel on Architecture
- First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
- Gustav Stickley on Architecture
- For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
- James Rouse on Architecture
- Form follows function.
- Louis Sullivan on Architecture
- Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
- Richard Rogers on Architecture
- French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
- Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
- Arthur Erickson on Architecture
- I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
- Philip Warren Anderson on Architecture
- I am but an architectural composer.
- Alexander Jackson Davis on Architecture
- I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
- Richard Rogers on Architecture
- I call architecture frozen music.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Architecture
- I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
- Parker Stevenson on Architecture
- I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
- Roger Waters on Architecture
- I don't believe in morality in architecture.
- Michael Graves on Architecture
- I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
- Ayn Rand on Architecture
- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
- Luis Barragan on Architecture
- I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
- Hayden Christensen on Architecture
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