Quotes about architecture
architecture building architect
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Alexander Jackson Davis
architecture composer
I am but an architectural composer.
architecture believe history human lives people public
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. Tadao Ando
architecture invention network system time
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. Vint Cerf
architecture data enable ingredient integrate itself key offering richer solution type various
XML by itself is not a solution -- it's a key ingredient to enable a richer type of solution, ... What you need is an architecture where you can take XML data and integrate it with various applications -- and that's what we're offering with BizTalk.
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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. Sara Sheridan
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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. Charles Jencks
architecture depends inner time unfolding
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
architecture art ask houses people tract whether
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. Frank Gehry
architecture believe bit building work
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. Peter Zumthor
architecture
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
architecture build chance life native perhaps piece
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. Paul Keating
architecture
On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. P. J. O'Rourke
architecture life means
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. Bjarke Ingels
architecture block either limited restricted town
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
architecture life rarely shaped
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.
architecture art buildings cities fit science sure
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.
architecture design generally given
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
architecture imperial roman vastness
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. Iain McGilchrist
architecture mixed
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. Imogen Poots
architecture bring flexible hope might open society
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. Frei Otto
architecture human improve life matters spent work
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. Oscar Niemeyer
architecture both break coherent design issue organic product rooms scale single unlike
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. Greg Lynn
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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. Ian Hamilton Finlay
architecture art business call given people product rises
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.
architecture art compels controls convinces dominates hear inspire music oratory time
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.
architecture belongs common domain excluded follow function house included tomb
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. Adolf Loos
architecture believe
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
architecture dad except knew lived time word
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. Antoine Predock
architecture body cities creating episodic moves occur personal sort within
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.
architecture aspect taking
There is no recognition of new architecture. And it's a very important aspect of what we are doing here, because it is taking place every day.
architecture build open seem
To build an architecture of trust, it is better to be open than to seem open and better to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy.
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There are 3,000 members of the media here this week. They're looking for interesting stories, ... Some are writing about New Orleans as a family destination. The Food Network is here right now shooting a week-long series on cuisine. House and Garden television is talking about architecture. A news crew from Japan, while covering the football game, is talking about the birthplace of jazz. This all allows New Orleans to show off all of its attributes.