Architecture And Design Quotes - Page 3

• There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

  David Chipperfield

  Badass, Mean, Bad Ass

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• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

  Renzo Piano

  Badass, Fighting, Bad Ass

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

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• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

  Zaha Hadid

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

  Marty Neumeier

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

  Chris Bangle

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

  Zaha Hadid

  Attitude, Technology, Design

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

  Adolf Loos

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

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• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

  Ayn Rand

  Badass, Bad Ass, Order

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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Michelangelo

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Cities

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• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Badass, Bad Ass

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

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• Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

  Mark Wigley

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

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• People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

  Paola Antonelli

  Badass, Attitude, Technology

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• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

  Thomas Fuller

  Beauty, God, Daughter

  'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'

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• I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Two, Differences, Design

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

  Arthur Erickson

  Badass, Moving, Heart

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhism, Design

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• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Badass, Bad Ass, Sculpture

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

  Maya Lin

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

  Fumihiko Maki

  Badass, Eye, Bad Ass

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• In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

  Badass, Bad Ass, Should Have

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9

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