Quotes About Architecture

As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

'Vaastu Shastra' has no shadow of 'Bhoot' at all. If 'Bhoot' was a 100 on 100, this is 300 on 100. It's that scary!

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

The architecture in Barcelona is very unique, and I think it's something to truly spend some time getting to know all the cool places.

Buenos Aires is an incredibly kind of fragrant city, a beautiful city to look at, and it has the old and the new.

Jaipur has definitely turned into a very beautiful city.

The house felt more like a body—softer, more mortal and organic—than like a building

Sick of envying, sick of herself. She didn't understand antiques or architecture, she couldn't draw like Sylvia, she didn't read like Ted, she had few interests and no expertise. A capacity for love was the only true thing she'd ever had.

The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In