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Architecture Quotes
"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
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"Architecture begins where engineering ends."
232
"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."
213
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
182
"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up."
182
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
171
"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."
165
"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."
159
"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."
155
"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."
108
"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
101
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
84
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
75
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
73
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
73
"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
72
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
72
"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."
71
"Architecture in general is frozen music."
70
"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."
69
"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."
69
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
69
"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."
68
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
68
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
68
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
66
"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."
64
"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
64
"The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness."
64
"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!"
64
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
64
"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."
63
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
63
"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."
61
"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."
61
"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."
61
"Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families."
60
"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."
60
"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
60
"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."
59
"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
58
"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."
56
"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
56
"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."
55
"I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time."
55
"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
55
"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."
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