Quotes About Architecture

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He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

Si monumentum requiris circumspice [If you would see the man's monument, look around].

The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station.

We are all wishful creatures, and we wish backward, too, not only forward, and thereby rebuild the curious, crumbling architecture of memory into structures that are more habitable.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that's loved.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.

we drove up to the three-shaded house

Fashion, like architecture, inheres in the darkness of the lived moment, belongs to the dream consciousness of the collective.

Arcades are altruism turned architecture – private property given to an entire community.

Suburban man falling asleep near his lawn mower, pulling a section of his Sunday paper over his head, thus re-enacts the birth of architecture.

The shapes of houses, sometimes transmitted through a hundred generations, seem eternally valid.

Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the 'application layer' of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart from occasional Federal Trade Commission activity.

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.

I'm so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that create hard connections and bridges between ideas that shouldn't be linked.

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try. It often comes from an old hotel or an old restaurant, and I will adapt it to be residential.