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Frank Lloyd Wright | Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. | 101 |
Alvar Aalto | 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. | 101 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked. | 101 |
Antoni Gaudi | Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. | 101 |
Bjarke Ingels | In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. | 101 |
Dan Brown | 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. | 101 |
Frank Gehry | Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. | 101 |
I. M. Pei | It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape. | 101 |
Louis Sullivan | Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant. | 101 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Less is more. | 101 |
Philip Johnson | Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. | 101 |
Stephen Gardiner | Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. | 101 |
Walter Gropius | Architecture begins where engineering ends. | 101 |
Yoshio Taniguchi | Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. | 101 |
Zaha Hadid | I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. | 101 |
Arthur Erickson | Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. | 101 |
Friedensreich Hundertwasser | Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. | 101 |
Harry von Zell | As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. | 101 |
Jason Silva | I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. | 101 |
Kenzo Tange | There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. | 101 |
Paul Bettany | 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. | 101 |
Ruta Sepetys | New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. | 101 |
Annabelle Selldorf | Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational. | 101 |
Arne Jacobsen | And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. | 101 |
David Allan Coe | It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. | 101 |
Gates McFadden | I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser. | 101 |
Hannah Ware | I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. | 101 |
Jools Holland | 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. | 101 |
Nico Tortorella | I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. | 101 |
Steven Holl | For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects. | 101 |
Daniel Libeskind | To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. | 101 |
David Chipperfield | I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. | 101 |
Giambattista Valli | I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. | 101 |
Moshe Safdie | Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. | 101 |
Bernard Tschumi | The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. | 101 |
David Josiah Brewer | Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master. | 101 |
D. B. Weiss | The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. | 101 |
Julia Morgan | Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. | 101 |
Ben van Berkel | My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. | 101 |
Enid Nemy | 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. | 101 |
John Osborne | Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. | 101 |
Anika Noni Rose | I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves. | 101 |
Christian de Portzamparc | We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. | 101 |
Dante Ferretti | I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater. | 101 |
Delia Ephron | In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. | 101 |
Jay Chiat | The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. | 101 |
Richard Meier | Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. | 101 |
Robert A. M. Stern | The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. | 101 |
Alexander Jackson Davis | I am but an architectural composer. | 101 |
Michael Lomenda | Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side. | 101 |
Michael Hansmeyer | The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. | 101 |
Joshua Prince-Ramus | Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. | 101 |
John Portman | Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. | 101 |
Jude Deveraux | My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. | 101 |
Alvar Aalto | We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. | 102 |
Bjarke Ingels | I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. | 102 |
Constantin Brancusi | Architecture is inhabited sculpture. | 102 |
Donna Karan | I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. | 102 |
Iain McGilchrist | The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. | 102 |
Le Corbusier | To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. | 102 |
Louis Kahn | 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. | 102 |
Louis Sullivan | Form follows function. | 102 |
Oscar Niemeyer | I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. | 102 |
Philip Johnson | Architecture is the art of how to waste space. | 102 |
Renzo Piano | In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. | 102 |
Richard Rogers | 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. | 102 |
Tadao Ando | When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. | 102 |
Vince Vaughn | The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home. | 102 |
Zaha Hadid | I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. | 102 |
Helmut Jahn | A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. | 102 |
Kenzo Tange | Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. | 102 |
Nancy Banks Smith | In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. | 102 |
Peter Zumthor | If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. | 102 |
Robert Palmer | Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. | 102 |
Annabelle Selldorf | The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. | 102 |
Bob Barr | 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. | 102 |
Bruce Jackson | Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. | 102 |
Harry Seidler | Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. | 102 |
Hugh Hardy | Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. | 102 |
Kenneth Frampton | Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century. | 102 |
Nathaniel Kahn | As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it. | 102 |
Neil Denari | In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. | 102 |
Steven Holl | Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail. | 102 |
Christopher Wren | Architecture aims at Eternity. | 102 |
Dexter Fletcher | I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. | 102 |
Edwin Lutyens | There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. | 102 |
Julia Morgan | My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. | 102 |
Martin Puryear | 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. | 102 |
Toyo Ito | I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. | 102 |
Antoine Predock | 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. | 102 |
Rafael Vinoly | Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. | 102 |
S. J. Rozan | I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. | 102 |
Anne Fortier | Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth. | 102 |
Christian de Portzamparc | When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. | 102 |
John Lautner | Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. | 102 |
Richard Meier | An important work of architecture will create polemics. | 102 |
Alexander Jackson Davis | I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. | 102 |
Alexandre de Betak | I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. | 102 |
Joshua Prince-Ramus | Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time. | 102 |
James Polshek | I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. | 102 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. | 103 |
Alvar Aalto | God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. | 103 |
I. M. Pei | Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. | 103 |
Le Corbusier | Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. | 103 |
Levon Helm | We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that. | 103 |
Louis Kahn | Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. | 103 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. | 103 |
Norman Foster | There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. | 103 |
Charles Jencks | If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. | 103 |
Daniel Burnham | Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. | 103 |
Frei Otto | My architecture is the architecture of survival. | 103 |
Kenzo Tange | I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. | 103 |
Rick Perlstein | Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. | 103 |
Annabelle Selldorf | Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. | 103 |
Gustav Stickley | 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. | 103 |
Harry Seidler | The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. | 103 |
Luis Barragan | My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. | 103 |
Nathaniel Kahn | There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life. | 103 |
Patricia Marx | You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? | 103 |
Peter Eisenman | I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. | 103 |
Anouska Hempel | I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble. | 103 |
Leon Krier | I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. | 103 |
Marcus Brigstocke | I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. | 103 |
Michael Graves | I have no requirements for a style of architecture. | 103 |
Philip Warren Anderson | I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. | 103 |
Edwin Lutyens | In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. | 103 |
Ron Eglash | When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. | 103 |
Toyo Ito | Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. | 103 |
Antoine Predock | Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' | 103 |
Danny Rimer | The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. | 103 |
Sammy Cahn | Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. | 103 |
Christian de Portzamparc | In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. | 103 |
Donald Barthelme | My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. | 103 |
James Rouse | 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. | 103 |
James Wyatt | Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. | 103 |
Rafael Moneo | I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial. | 103 |
Richard Meier | 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. | 103 |
Mitchell Kapor | Architecture is politics. | 103 |
Joshua Prince-Ramus | Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. | 103 |
James Polshek | I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture. | 103 |
John Portman | Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. | 103 |
Alvar Aalto | Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. | 104 |
Le Corbusier | A house is a machine for living in. | 104 |
Parker Stevenson | 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. | 104 |
Vitruvius | Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. | 104 |
Colleen Atwood | I like the architecture of lingerie. | 104 |
Frei Otto | Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. | 104 |
Peter Zumthor | Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. | 104 |
Preston Sturges | I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. | 104 |
Adolf Loos | The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. | 104 |
Amanda Hearst | Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. | 104 |
Daniel Wu | I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around. | 104 |
Emilio Ambasz | Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. | 104 |
Ernest Dimnet | Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. | 104 |
Greg Lynn | What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature. | 104 |
Harry Seidler | After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. | 104 |
Hussein Chalayan | I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. | 104 |
Peter Eisenman | The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. | 104 |
Rem Koolhaas | People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. | 104 |
Daniel Libeskind | Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. | 104 |
Bernard Tschumi | My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. | 104 |
Cesar Pelli | Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful? | 104 |
Ron Eglash | I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry. | 104 |
Bernard Levin | What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? | 104 |
Saul Steinberg | The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. | 104 |
John Lautner | 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. | 104 |
Mark Frost | The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. | 104 |
Joseph Altuzarra | In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. | 104 |
Jean Nouvel | I think architecture has to be a gift. | 104 |
James Polshek | I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. | 104 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. | 105 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. | 105 |
Steve Martin | Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. | 105 |
Alvar Aalto | 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. | 105 |
Antoni Gaudi | Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. | 105 |
Bjarke Ingels | I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. | 105 |
Christian Louboutin | Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. | 105 |
Kenneth Clark | Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. | 105 |
Louis Kahn | A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. | 105 |
Parker Stevenson | My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. | 105 |
Peter York | Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. | 105 |
Philip Johnson | All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. | 105 |
Renzo Piano | There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. | 105 |
Arthur Erickson | Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. | 105 |
David Harewood | I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it. | 105 |
Frei Otto | My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. | 105 |
Sara Sheridan | Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. | 105 |
Thom Mayne | I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. | 105 |
Thomas Gibson | Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area. | 105 |
Doug TenNapel | I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. | 105 |
Goldwin Smith | Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. | 105 |
Luis Barragan | I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. | 105 |
Ruth Bernhard | To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting. | 105 |
Steven Holl | I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. | 105 |
Thomas Heatherwick | I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses. | 105 |
David Chipperfield | The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. | 105 |
Michael Graves | I don't believe in morality in architecture. | 105 |
Moshe Safdie | Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. | 105 |
Bernard Tschumi | The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. | 105 |
Charlie Cox | There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London. | 105 |
Michael Arad | As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much. | 105 |
Stanley B. Prusiner | Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. | 105 |
Toyo Ito | We have to base architecture on the environment. | 105 |
Joseph Kosinski | I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. | 105 |
Jean Nouvel | Each new situation requires a new architecture. | 105 |
James Polshek | I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. | 105 |
I. M. Pei | A lasting architecture has to have roots. | 106 |
Louis Kahn | Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. | 106 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. | 106 |
Renzo Piano | London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. | 106 |
Stefan Sagmeister | Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. | 106 |
Tadao Ando | Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. | 106 |
Walter Gropius | The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible. | 106 |
William Bennett | All real education is the architecture of the soul. | 106 |
Frances Mayes | I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. | 106 |
Kenzo Tange | Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. | 106 |
Sydney Pollack | I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. | 106 |
Thom Mayne | 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. | 106 |
Walter Russell Mead | You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. | 106 |
Arne Jacobsen | If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. | 106 |
Luis Barragan | Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. | 106 |
Martin Filler | Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. | 106 |
Peter Eisenman | Architecture is definitely a political act. | 106 |
Rem Koolhaas | Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. | 106 |
Michael Graves | 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. | 106 |
Tony Hale | What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful. | 106 |
Martin Mull | Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. | 106 |
Stephen Sprouse | 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. | 106 |
Antoine Predock | I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background. | 106 |
Christian de Portzamparc | Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. | 106 |
Max Walker | I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture. | 106 |
Ross Lovegrove | I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. | 106 |
Joseph Kosinski | Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. | 106 |
Federico Garcia Lorca | The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. | 107 |
Herbert A. Simon | 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. | 107 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. | 107 |
Oscar Niemeyer | Architecture is invention. | 107 |
Philip Johnson | Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. | 107 |
Richard Rogers | Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. | 107 |
Walter Gropius | The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue. | 107 |
Andre Leon Talley | One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches. | 107 |
Leonard Mlodinow | Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression. | 107 |
Maya Lin | I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. | 107 |
Narciso Rodriguez | I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. | 107 |
Thom Mayne | I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK. | 107 |
Art Garfunkel | I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. | 107 |
Hugh Hardy | When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic. | 107 |
Peter Eisenman | I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' | 107 |
Thomas Reid | The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. | 107 |
Daniel Libeskind | Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. | 107 |
Jeremy Renner | Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles? | 107 |
Brian Baumgartner | The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. | 107 |
Cesar Pelli | I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design. | 107 |
Jaime Lerner | There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. | 107 |
Robin Lord Taylor | I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.' | 107 |
Jay Chiat | The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. | 107 |
Jake Barton | People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. | 107 |
Jonathan Hickman | I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. | 107 |
Joshua Prince-Ramus | Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. | 107 |
Alvar Aalto | The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people. | 108 |
Clayton M. Christensen | As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. | 108 |
Frank Gehry | It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. | 108 |
I. M. Pei | I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. | 108 |
Imogen Poots | I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up. | 108 |
Louis Sullivan | The building's identity resided in the ornament. | 108 |
T. E. Lawrence | All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! | 108 |
Tony Scott | We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. | 108 |
Charles Jencks | Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. | 108 |
Guillaume Apollinaire | A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. | 108 |
Helmut Jahn | Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. | 108 |
Philip Treacy | In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. | 108 |
Thom Mayne | Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. | 108 |
Adolf Loos | 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. | 108 |
Arne Jacobsen | In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. | 108 |
Martin Filler | The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. | 108 |
Rem Koolhaas | Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. | 108 |
David Chipperfield | Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce. | 108 |
Russell Lynes | 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. | 108 |
Janet Echelman | As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts. | 108 |
James Henry Breasted | There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. | 108 |
John Howe | Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. | 108 |
Frank Gehry | Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. | 109 |
Louis Kahn | If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. | 109 |
Vitruvius | Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. | 109 |
Charles Jencks | I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. | 109 |
Claire Tomalin | The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it. | 109 |
Helmut Jahn | The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. | 109 |
Maya Lin | The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. | 109 |
Minoru Yamasaki | 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. | 109 |
Thom Mayne | Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. | 109 |
Arne Jacobsen | Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. | 109 |
Martin Filler | Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' | 109 |
Peter Eisenman | I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. | 109 |
David Chipperfield | Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected. | 109 |
Leon Krier | Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. | 109 |
Claes Oldenburg | 'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. | 109 |
Jim Woodring | That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. | 109 |
Michael Ende | No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. | 109 |
Jean Nouvel | I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. | 109 |
Alvar Aalto | The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. | 110 |
Dieter Rams | There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. | 110 |
Frank Stella | Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. | 110 |
I. M. Pei | I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. | 110 |
Renzo Piano | You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. | 110 |
Richard Rogers | Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. | 110 |
Stephen Gardiner | The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. | 110 |
Charlie Rose | I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. | 110 |
Hayden Christensen | I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. | 110 |
Lee Radziwill | I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. | 110 |
Sarah Parcak | Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion. | 110 |
Arne Jacobsen | Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. | 110 |
Goldwin Smith | Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. | 110 |
Steven Holl | Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. | 110 |
David Chipperfield | I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? | 110 |
Bernard Tschumi | I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret. | 110 |
Cameron Sinclair | The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. | 110 |
Andrew Pyper | Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go. | 110 |
Antoine Predock | A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good. | 110 |
Malcolm Wallop | Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. | 110 |
Rob Pike | We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture. | 110 |
Mukesh Ambani | 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. | 110 |
Ai Weiwei | To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. | 111 |
Bjarke Ingels | For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. | 111 |
I. M. Pei | I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. | 111 |
Stephen Gardiner | What people want, above all, is order. | 111 |
Walter Gropius | Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. | 111 |
Arthur Erickson | 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. | 111 |
Bryan Batt | I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun. | 111 |
Maya Lin | 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. | 111 |
Peter Zumthor | I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. | 111 |
Annabelle Selldorf | When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial. | 111 |
Charlotte Bunch | What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. | 111 |
Greg Lynn | To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. | 111 |
Harry Seidler | After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. | 111 |
David Chipperfield | Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. | 111 |
Leon Max | To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment. | 111 |
Michael Graves | In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. | 111 |
Cesar Pelli | When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it. | 111 |
Antoine Predock | Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. | 111 |
John Baldacci | There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. | 111 |
R. Buckminster Fuller | We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. | 112 |
Bjarke Ingels | Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. | 112 |
Bryant H. McGill | Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. | 112 |
Christian Dior | A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. | 112 |
Ian Hamilton Finlay | The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. | 112 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. | 112 |
Oren Peli | I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced. | 112 |
Oscar Niemeyer | It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. | 112 |
Arthur Erickson | Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. | 112 |
James Stewart | 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. | 112 |
Sebastian Bach | Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. | 112 |
Annabelle Selldorf | There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. | 112 |
Arne Jacobsen | If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. | 112 |
Martin Filler | One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site. | 112 |
Thomas Heatherwick | To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. | 112 |
Alain Robert | In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. | 112 |
Antoine Predock | I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. | 112 |
Kelly Wearstler | I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle. | 113 |
Oscar Niemeyer | Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. | 113 |
Roger Waters | 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. | 113 |
Stephen Gardiner | The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. | 113 |
Virginia Postrel | 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. | 113 |
Antony Gormley | I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place. | 113 |
Joshua Bell | 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. | 113 |
Minoru Yamasaki | We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. | 113 |
Taylor Schilling | My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. | 113 |
Adolf Loos | Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. | 113 |
Daniel Libeskind | I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. | 113 |
George Hickenlooper | I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. | 113 |
Leon Krier | You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. | 113 |
Marco Brambilla | I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. | 113 |
Michael Graves | The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. | 113 |
Ron Eglash | My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong. | 113 |
James Maslow | I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. | 113 |
Juan Goytisolo | When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. | 113 |
Frank Gehry | 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. | 114 |
I. M. Pei | To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function. | 114 |
Oksana Baiul | 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. | 114 |
Paul Rand | If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. | 114 |
Tadao Ando | I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. | 114 |
Zaha Hadid | Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. | 114 |
Maya Lin | I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. | 114 |
Bayard Taylor | Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. | 114 |
Edith Pearlman | Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral. | 114 |
Peter Eisenman | The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. | 114 |
Robert Pinsky | The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities. | 114 |
David Chipperfield | I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design. | 114 |
Donald Bren | Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone. | 114 |
Max Walker | About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper. | 114 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. | 115 |
Frank Gehry | I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. | 115 |
Henry Paulson | Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. | 115 |
Louis Kahn | Architecture is the thoughtful making of space. | 115 |
Tadao Ando | I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. | 115 |
Charles Jencks | Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. | 115 |
Thom Mayne | Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. | 115 |
Arne Jacobsen | I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. | 115 |
Rem Koolhaas | Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. | 115 |
Michael Graves | For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself. | 115 |
Moshe Safdie | Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. | 115 |
Jo Nesbo | 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. | 115 |
Winston Churchill | We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. | 116 |
Audre Lorde | 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. | 116 |
Charles Eames | In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. | 116 |
Joni Mitchell | I see music as fluid architecture. | 116 |
Peter York | By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. | 116 |
Piet Mondrian | I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. | 116 |
Richard Rogers | Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. | 116 |
Stephen Gardiner | Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. | 116 |
Tadao Ando | All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. | 116 |
Walter Gropius | 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. | 116 |
Cameron Mackintosh | I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals. | 116 |
Nate Lowman | Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. | 116 |
Peter Zumthor | In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. | 116 |
Rem Koolhaas | Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. | 116 |
Alex Ebert | In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building. | 116 |
Michael Mandelbaum | If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. | 116 |
Milton Friedman | The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. | 117 |
I. M. Pei | The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. | 117 |
Louis Kahn | Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. | 117 |
Martha Graham | To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. | 117 |
Nate Berkus | You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. | 117 |
Paul Keating | You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up. | 117 |
Tadao Ando | The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. | 117 |
Arthur Erickson | We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. | 117 |
Ben Nicholson | You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. | 117 |
Michael Tilson Thomas | 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. | 117 |
Robert Smithson | Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. | 117 |
Moshe Safdie | There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. | 117 |
Jay Griffiths | Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. | 117 |
Joe Elliott | I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. | 117 |
Janet Echelman | I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. | 117 |
Alvar Aalto | Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. | 118 |
I. M. Pei | In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. | 118 |
Oscar Niemeyer | It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. | 118 |
Renzo Piano | Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years. | 118 |
Richard Rogers | Architecture is about public space held by buildings. | 118 |
Thomas a Kempis | The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. | 118 |
Tim Gunn | I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. | 118 |
Zaha Hadid | Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. | 118 |
Alan Bennett | I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. | 118 |
Ben Nicholson | 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. | 118 |
Leonard Susskind | You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't. | 118 |
Minoru Yamasaki | If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. | 118 |
Peter Zumthor | Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. | 118 |
Thom Mayne | I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?' | 118 |
Cherie Lunghi | I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown. | 118 |
Marilyn Hacker | 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. | 118 |
Martin Filler | Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. | 118 |
Alex Winter | I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. | 118 |
Leon Krier | If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. | 118 |
Marc Newson | People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. | 118 |
Michael Graves | I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me. | 118 |
Alan Huffman | Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. | 118 |
Philip Johnson | Architecture is art, nothing else. | 119 |
Stephen Gardiner | Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. | 119 |
Tadao Ando | Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. | 119 |
Maya Lin | Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. | 119 |
Andrew Luck | It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast. | 119 |
Martin Filler | Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. | 119 |
Michael Graves | I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. | 119 |
Ernest Hemingway | Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. | 120 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | I call architecture frozen music. | 120 |
Francisco Costa | I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. | 120 |
Ian Mckellen | Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. | 120 |
Kevin McCloud | Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. | 120 |
Oscar Niemeyer | Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. | 120 |
Philip Johnson | The future of architecture is culture. | 120 |
Renzo Piano | In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. | 120 |
Tadao Ando | Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. | 120 |
Walter Gropius | I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught. | 120 |
Arthur Erickson | The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. | 120 |
Jack Dangermond | Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations. | 120 |
William Devane | I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. | 120 |
Rem Koolhaas | What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. | 120 |
Michael Graves | You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. | 120 |
Ai Weiwei | I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. | 121 |
Richard Rogers | 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. | 121 |
Tadao Ando | I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. | 121 |
Zaha Hadid | Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. | 121 |
Peter Zumthor | I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. | 121 |
Anthony Holden | 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. | 121 |
Barry Mann | I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. | 121 |
Martin Filler | All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial. | 121 |
Miriam Defensor-Santiago | In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture. | 121 |
Alvar Aalto | Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. | 122 |
I. M. Pei | Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors. | 122 |
Tadao Ando | Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. | 122 |
Zaha Hadid | Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. | 122 |
Helmut Jahn | I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. | 122 |
Peter Zumthor | There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. | 122 |
Theodor Mommsen | Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. | 122 |
Doug Aitken | The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature. | 122 |
Sharon Horgan | I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture. | 122 |
David Chipperfield | A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels. | 122 |
Arthur Erickson | Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. | 123 |
Ben Nicholson | If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. | 123 |
Charles Jencks | I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. | 123 |
Joel Coen | The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. | 123 |
Christopher Nolan | The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. | 124 |
Tadao Ando | 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. | 124 |
Peter Zumthor | Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available. | 124 |
Sufjan Stevens | The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. | 124 |
Martin Filler | Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. | 124 |
Dan Brown | I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller. | 125 |
Renzo Piano | I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. | 125 |
Adam Carolla | In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it. | 125 |
Helmut Jahn | It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result? | 125 |
Thom Mayne | 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. | 125 |
Eric Whitacre | With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. | 126 |
Havelock Ellis | 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. | 126 |
Nick Clegg | The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. | 126 |
Quincy Jones | If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. | 126 |
Samuel Butler | Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. | 126 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. | 126 |
Carlos Slim | The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples. | 201 |
Frank Gehry | Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. | 201 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. | 201 |
Richard Rogers | My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. | 201 |
Arthur Erickson | Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. | 201 |
Larry Wall | 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. | 201 |
Doug Aitken | 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. | 201 |
Roman Coppola | When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. | 201 |
Ayn Rand | I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. | 202 |
Frank Gehry | Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. | 202 |
Richard Rogers | Architecture is always political. | 202 |
Tadao Ando | Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. | 202 |
Hans-Ulrich Obrist | I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. | 202 |
Thom Mayne | You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. | 202 |
Rem Koolhaas | Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star. | 202 |
Zaha Hadid | As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. | 203 |
Philip Treacy | There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. | 203 |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich | When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence. | 203 |
Martin Filler | The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s. | 203 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. | 204 |
Walter Gropius | The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. | 204 |
Arthur Erickson | The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. | 204 |
Maya Lin | In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. | 204 |
Michael Graves | Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for. | 204 |
Coco Chanel | Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. | 205 |
Stephen Gardiner | French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. | 205 |
Hans-Ulrich Obrist | I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture. | 205 |
Robert Wilson | The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. | 205 |
Thom Mayne | Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do. | 205 |
Salvador Dali | The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. | 206 |
Caroline Wozniacki | I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business. | 206 |
Lord Byron | A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. | 207 |
G-Eazy | London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. | 207 |
Hugo Chavez | 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. | 207 |
Arthur Erickson | Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? | 207 |
Kathryn Harrison | I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules. | 207 |
Simon Schama | The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story. | 207 |
Thom Mayne | In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started. | 207 |
Chelsea Cain | I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach. | 207 |
Michael Graves | The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. | 207 |
John Updike | The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. | 208 |
Thom Mayne | I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality. | 208 |
Rem Koolhaas | The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. | 208 |
Stephen Gardiner | The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. | 209 |
Trey Parker | I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. | 209 |
Martin Filler | Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. | 209 |
Voltaire | The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. | 210 |
Frank Gehry | I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. | 210 |
George Lucas | The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. | 210 |
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space. | 210 |
Zaha Hadid | Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. | 210 |
Thom Mayne | I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. | 210 |
Harold Ramis | I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view. | 211 |
Helmut Jahn | The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. | 211 |
Maya Lin | I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. | 211 |
Robert Wilson | I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. | 211 |
Ernest Hemingway | 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. | 212 |
Richard Rogers | Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. | 212 |
Tadao Ando | All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. | 212 |
Thom Mayne | I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. | 212 |
Martin Filler | Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. | 212 |
Frank Gehry | Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. | 213 |
Susan Vreeland | I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. | 213 |
Thom Mayne | Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. | 213 |
Martin Filler | By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades. | 213 |
Richard Rogers | Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. | 214 |
Walter Gropius | Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems. | 214 |
Maya Lin | I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. | 214 |
Rem Koolhaas | There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. | 214 |
Ayn Rand | A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. | 215 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | 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. | 215 |
Adam Savage | The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard. | 215 |
Catherine Deneuve | I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. | 215 |
Jeffrey Zeldman | For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up. | 215 |
Brad Pitt | I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. | 216 |
Alice Waters | If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me. | 216 |
Edgardo Osorio | I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture. | 216 |
Thom Mayne | Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. | 216 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces. | 217 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. | 218 |
Romesh Gunesekera | To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens. | 218 |
Martin Filler | One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings. | 218 |
Shane Carruth | As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution. | 218 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative. | 220 |
Stephen Gardiner | Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. | 220 |
Arthur Erickson | The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. | 220 |
Thom Mayne | I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing. | 220 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | 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. | 221 |
Zaha Hadid | I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. | 221 |
Frank Gehry | There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up. | 222 |
Arthur Erickson | Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. | 222 |
Jeff Fortenberry | We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. | 222 |
Rachel McAdams | I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything. | 224 |
Thom Mayne | Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that. | 224 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. | 225 |
Martin Filler | There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing. | 225 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. | 226 |
John Ruskin | No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. | 302 |
Ben Horowitz | When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations. | 302 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. | 302 |
Jim Rohn | Whatever good things we build end up building us. | 306 |
John Irving | The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. | 306 |
Vera Wang | I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style. | 307 |
Jack Dangermond | I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning. | 307 |
Catherine Hardwicke | When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating. | 308 |
Bob Dylan | I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. | 310 |
Rudolf Steiner | When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. | 311 |
Thomas Fuller | Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. | 312 |
Rudolf Steiner | Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements. | 312 |
John Ruskin | We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. | 313 |
Zaha Hadid | I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. | 316 |
Rudolf Steiner | 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. | 317 |
Daryl Hall | I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. | 320 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. | 323 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. | 325 |
Gretchen Rubin | It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. | 403 |
Twyla Tharp | I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. | 403 |
Moby | If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough. | 405 |
P. J. O'Rourke | On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. | 409 |
Venus Williams | I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture. | 410 |
John Ruskin | It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. | 412 |
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. | 417 |
Nikki Sixx | I'm very interested in architecture. | 422 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. | 424 |
Joshua Bell | The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is. | 503 |
John Ruskin | It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. | 507 |
Vint Cerf | The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet. | 510 |
Victor Hugo | Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. | 512 |
Jhumpa Lahiri | In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces. | 515 |
Henry David Thoreau | They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. | 518 |
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture. | 520 |
Chris Pine | I love architecture. | 520 |
Patti Smith | People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them. | 524 |
Drew Barrymore | I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. | 609 |
P. J. O'Rourke | Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. | 1109 |
Bill Gates | The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol. | 1509 |
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