Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

James Wyatt

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

John Scott

Poetry is a double-edged sword. You learn to use language at its most intense - but this is far too intense for prose fiction. I've been teaching myself to progressively strip the 'poetry' away - the bulk of The Architect is told in very simple prose.

Ninety percent of what I build is made of home salvaged architecture ? pieces of a house or a business. Every one is different ? they're one-of-a-kind pieces, you'd say.

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.

One of the things that our architects are strongly trying to do is to maintain that open feel that we have. We are not an inner-city campus.

One of legendary architect Pete Dye's most celebrated courses, Teeth of the Dog is named for a local term describing the island's jagged-edged coral reefs. The Caribbean-bordering par 3s are the Dog's main draw and down on the fifth and the seventh holes, you're so close to the water that you can feel the spray.

John Updike

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

David Ogden Stiers

There are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent.

I always wanted to study abroad. Art and architecture are what fascinate me.

Certainly Power Everywhere, to some level, includes OEMing systems, though for the most part it's more focused on the use of the Power architecture by various partners in client devices, game consoles, whatever, than it is in computer systems, ... Power Everywhere and OpenPower are really about using collaborators ? to get Power into new types of devices.

Hugh Grant

But Europe has redefined and redesigned the regulatory architecture and the last year we saw the beginnings of products being approved. I passionately hope we will see that pace picking up.

I look with awe at this huge building which, in the richness of its architecture, is an expression of faith and love for Holy Mary and for Her Son.

My dad was an architect and I started, before I was even at school, drawing and having a fascination with drawing based on my dad bringing home rolls of plans,

Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans is a musician or has a relative who's a musician, whether they are professional or amateur.

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

New Orleans is body and soul. The soul is the people and the body is the architecture, and you can't save the one without saving the other. We need to have individual assessment of houses before they are bulldozed willy-nilly.

New Orleans is an extraordinary city; its arts and architecture are cherished by people all over the world.

I have always been very interested in historic architecture. It's just got a rich history from the famous garden district to the oak lined streets.

I have lost a longtime friend, as did the entire racing community. He had a brilliant racing mind and was the architect of one of the most unique racing programs in the country.

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.

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.

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.

Art Garfunkel

I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?

I don't know that Apple's market share can survive another architecture shift. Every time they do this, they lose more customers.

I don't know of any architects who want to do bad buildings.

Cameron Sinclair

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date, and I knew right away he was my husband. He's a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, 'I wake up like this. I'm Pollyanna Sunshine, and I'm not for everyone'.

Iain McGilchrist

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

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.

Frei Otto

Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.