Architecture Quotes
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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.
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I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.
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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.
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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.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
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Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
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Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
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The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.
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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
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In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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I think that if you use long lines, they become – what could they be? The only thing they could be is either highways or architecture or bridges.
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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.
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I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.
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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.
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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.
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I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
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When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
