Architecture Quotes
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If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.
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Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography.
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I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
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In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.
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I’m obsessed by nature, I’m obsessed by the British countryside and I’m obsessed by the National Trust. Nature, Architecture and beauty all rolled into one.
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I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
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Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
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Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
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The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
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There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
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After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
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To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.
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Architecture is politics.
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Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
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I love architecture.
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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
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For me, architecture is a social act.
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Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
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Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.
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It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.
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All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.
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I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
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I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing with a multitude of influences for the S/S 2012 campaign, inspired by the modernist literature and architecture that is in itself a fusion of political and architectural mantras, both dreamy and concrete.
