Architecture Quotes - Page 13

• what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Self, Important

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• Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Book, Holiday

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• The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

  Alain de Botton

  Kindness, Order, Should Have

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• My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

  Jean Nouvel

  Historical, Today, Technique

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• Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't - and don't - live in a vacuum. To address that reality, Catalyst Conference 2006 will delve into strategic infrastructure technologies with the depth to which our clients have grown accustomed. With the larger number of Cross-Cutting Concerns sessions, we'll also clearly illustrate how these technologies relate to each other, and how roles, geographies, and business processes intersect within an enterprise.

  Jamie Lewis

  Cutting, Technology, Reality

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• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  Peter Eisenman

  Choices, Variation, Algorithms

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• Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Glorify

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• The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Change, Design, Patterns

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Civilization, Agriculture

  "Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition".

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• Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Lying, Expression, Technique

  "Painting and plastic art". De Stijl, series XIII, 73-4, pp. 17 - 18, 1926.

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• Architecture is crystallized music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Flower, Domes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.97, Applewood Books

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• I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mind, Paper, Tone

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.356, Ravenio Books

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• You begin with the possibilities of the material.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Possibility, Materials

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• I think architecture has to be a gift.

  Jean Nouvel

  Thinking

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• Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Interesting, Quality, Elements

  "Women in Design: Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Vicky Lowry, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

  Lewis Mumford

  Prophecy, Tombs, Finished

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the city. I have created a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside – where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into a part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Moving, Thinking, Museums

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• One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

  Martin Filler

  People, Goal, Use

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• The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

  Martin Filler

  Successful, Cities, Expansion

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• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Beach, Art, Book

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• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Italian, Cities, Long

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.138, Penguin

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• The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Choices, Design, Desire

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.194, Penguin

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• I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780)

  John Adams

  Children, Philosophy, War

  Letter to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1780

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