Architecture Quotes
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
Alvar Aalto
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The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.
Freeman Dyson
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
Frances Mayes
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The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
Walter Gropius
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Nancy Banks Smith
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
Taylor Schilling
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A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
David Chipperfield
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
Zaha Hadid
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Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
Jo Nesbo
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If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
Minoru Yamasaki
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I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
Hannah Ware
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
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Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind.
Pranav Mistry
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The future of architecture is culture.
Philip Johnson