Architecture Quotes
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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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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Each new situation requires a new architecture.
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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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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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In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.
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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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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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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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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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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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What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
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We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
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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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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
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If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
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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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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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The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
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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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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
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What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
