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Architecture Quotes
"The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on."
87
"Architecture begins where engineering ends."
84
"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
70
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
68
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
57
"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up."
57
"Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral."
57
"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."
54
"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting."
53
"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
50
"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."
46
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
42
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
42
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
38
"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."
33
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
33
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
32
"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
31
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
29
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
28
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
27
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
27
"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
26
"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
25
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
25
"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do."
25
"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."
25
"I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out."
24
"Architecture in general is frozen music."
24
"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."
24
"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
23
"I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning."
23
"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."
22
"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."
22
"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."
22
"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."
22
"All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden."
21
"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."
20
"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."
20
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
20
"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."
20
"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."
20
"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."
19
"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."
19
"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart."
19
"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
19
"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."
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