Architecture Quotes
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Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
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All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
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Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.
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Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
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We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
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Each new situation requires a new architecture.
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Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
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The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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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.
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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
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You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
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..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
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In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.
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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.
