Architecture Quotes
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
Zaha Hadid -
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.
Edgardo Osorio
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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.
Rafael Moneo -
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
Walter Gropius -
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
Mario Botta -
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
William Bennett -
Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel -
A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
Bret Stephens
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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.
Martin Filler -
Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
Christian de Portzamparc -
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.
Max Walker -
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.
Larry Wall -
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.
Rafael Vinoly -
At the apogee of the state's evolution, architecture was monumental, and the ruling class were exalted as a pseudospecies. The sacred rites of statehood became the central focus of religion.
E. O. Wilson
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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.
Parker Stevenson -
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.
Bernard Tschumi -
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
Vera Wang -
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
Tadao Ando -
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.
Walter Gropius -
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
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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.
Christian de Portzamparc -
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
John Ruskin -
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson -
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
Iain McGilchrist