Architecture Quotes
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Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
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The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.
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I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
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I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
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I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
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We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
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I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.
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Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
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The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic.
