Top architecture Quotes Collection
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There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.Collection: Architecture
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.Collection: Architecture
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.Collection: Architecture
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.Collection: Architecture
Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.Collection: Architecture
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.Collection: Architecture
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.Collection: 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.Collection: Architecture
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.Collection: Architecture
We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.Collection: Architecture
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.Collection: Architecture
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture.Collection: Architecture
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.Collection: Architecture
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.Collection: Architecture
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.Collection: Architecture
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.Collection: Architecture
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.Collection: Architecture
While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.Collection: Architecture
Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.Collection: Architecture
I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.Collection: Architecture
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.Collection: Architecture
The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities.Collection: Architecture
We have to base architecture on the environment.Collection: Architecture
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.Collection: Architecture
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.Collection: Architecture
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.Collection: 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.Collection: Architecture
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.Collection: Architecture
Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.Collection: Architecture
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.Collection: Architecture
Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.Collection: 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.Collection: 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.Collection: Architecture
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.Collection: Architecture
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.Collection: Architecture
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.Collection: Architecture
The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.Collection: Architecture
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.Collection: Architecture
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.Collection: Architecture
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.Collection: Architecture
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.Collection: Architecture
My architecture is the architecture of survival.Collection: Architecture
I think architecture has to be a gift.Collection: Architecture
I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.Collection: Architecture
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?Collection: Architecture
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.Collection: Architecture
If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.Collection: Architecture
Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.Collection: Architecture
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.Collection: Architecture
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.Collection: Architecture