Architecture Quotes
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An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.
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At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space, it's also to work with the time, to work with the people who are involved with the place. It's also dealing with history. It takes all this into account. Other works can be placed in different environments, but they always follow a rule. This is usually not the case for work in situ, because even if they are transported, they remain there forever or they are destroyed.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.
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Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
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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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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
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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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The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
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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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I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.
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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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I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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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'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
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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 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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All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.
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Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.
