Quotes About Architecture

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

In these modes, energy is at best regarded by architects as a set of necessary quantifications, bureaucratic mandates, and checklists rather than as a fundamental agent in novel formations of architecture.

Although building science has been taught in schools of architecture for quite some time, the knowledge and understanding it encompasses are still not part of students' and architects' cognitive framework and design intuition.

The architectural profession has struggled to develop forms of environmental accounting that can guide the design process without overly burdening or complicating it.

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

We shape our buildings and they shape us.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

When the Templars came back from the Middle East, they brought back all this knowledge that had been lost in Europe during the Dark Ages. Medicine, science, astronomy, architecture, cartography. The Church hated it.

the most famous obelisk in the world—

The hospital was impossibly tall and wide, a great monument to illness.

You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture

All buildings: big or small, beautiful or ugly, are the spiritualisation of matter

Culture is fundamentally structure and we all know what happens to buildings when they don't have structural integrity

John Tradescant the Younger in 1638 were improved upon by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in 1753 with the addition of an artificial lake featuring an island. Brown is also responsible for constructing the hill at the edge of the garden which is crowned with the famous Pineapple Pavilion folly.'

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.

Draw a floor plan of the house you lived in as a child, including all the floors.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

My buildings are more famous than me.

But the past was never erased, probably because there's just too much of it. Everything in France is built on layers of other things that existed before. The present in France is only a compromise between the past and the present.

front of a pretty red-roofed house. All about the square were

Unformed, monstrous, and perhaps unidentifiable, deconstruction has moved virally through fields beyond philosophy and theory. Derrida advanced its progress in architecture, art, politics and law. And especially, in literature…