Architecture Quotes
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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
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What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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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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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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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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...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.
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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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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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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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Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
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I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
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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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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
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We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
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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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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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The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic.
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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.
