Quotes about architecture
architecture fine human values
All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. Frank Lloyd Wright
architecture cars instead lining parking road
The idea is to make the architecture more obvious, instead of lining the road with cars in parking lots.
architecture bible changing discipline formative given history images jewish jews nature scholars seeing texts written
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. Simon Schama
architecture creating environment fits naturally overall property structure trick welcoming
The trick with creating a welcoming environment is to find a play structure that fits naturally with the overall look of the property and blends well with the architecture of the home.
architecture kids
They look like landscaping scenes. When kids aren't on them, they look like the architecture of the park.
architecture art believe considered form people profession reasons whenever
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. James Polshek
architecture art great london paris power pyramids shadow washington
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. Dan Brown
architecture sometimes
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Frank Gehry
architecture building
Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
architecture difficult exercise extensive grid happening major mostly project related research since
It's difficult to tell what's happening with grids since it's mostly a marketing-driven exercise today. Our extensive grid research has yet to unearth a major project in implementing a grid architecture related to storage.
architecture asset nurtured quality rather
It's about appreciating the quality of our architecture. It's an asset that I want to be nurtured and strengthened rather than changed. James Snyder
architecture faster profession
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. Moshe Safdie
architecture urban worthy
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
architecture remember egyptian
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. Stephen Gardiner
architecture ifs architect
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
architecture sometimes good-and-bad
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time. John Updike
architecture fluid
I see music as fluid architecture. Joni Mitchell
architecture authentic harmonic lively sign visible
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy. Walter Gropius
architecture landlord knows
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
architecture should dedicated
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. Leonard Baskin
architecture language poet
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
architecture form
Architecture is not about form Peter Zumthor
architecture chandeliers jewellery
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
architecture wanted contemporary
I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture Rem Koolhaas
architecture combat-boots captivated
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. Tim Gunn
architecture trump licensing
Architecture trumps licensing any time. Tim O'Reilly
architecture prophecy tombs
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. Lewis Mumford
architecture
It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things. Joshua Prince-Ramus
architecture
Architecture is crystallized music. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
architecture building restless
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. Minoru Yamasaki
architecture wonder speed
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. Tadao Ando
architecture
To build is to be robbed. Samuel Johnson
architecture environment
We have to base architecture on the environment. Toyo Ito