Architecture Quotes - Page 17

• We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Believe, Facts, I Believe

  Glenn Murcutt (2002). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2002: Presented to Glenn Marcus Murcutt”

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• When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

  Richard Meier

  Mother, Art, Believe

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• Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Philosophy, Circles, Want

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• In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

  Christopher Wren

  Respect, Confusion, Confusing

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• Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

  J. G. Ballard

  Fashion, Skulls, Heaven

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• The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

  Susan Sontag

  Life, Spiritual, Athlete

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• Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Lessons, Today, Relevant

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• Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Happiness, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

  John Ruskin

  Writing, History, May

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.164

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• In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

  Albert Einstein

  Unity, Looks, Logic

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel’s commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in the global mobile market by more quickly delivering a broader portfolio of Intel architecture and communications technology solutions.

  Brian Krzanich

  Communication, Commitment, Technology

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• Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

  Lina Bo Bardi

  Issues, Political, Social

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• The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

  Justin Davidson

  Fire, Priorities, Burning Down

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• Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Creativity, Discovery, Hands

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• The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Challenges, Different, Lines

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• Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

  Thomas Gibson

  Rain, Cities, House

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I fell in love with it. Walking around just feels so cinematic. I find the aris- tocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

  Imogen Poots

  New York, Real, White

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• I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

  Alex Winter

  Music, Play, Novel

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Omnipotence, Mixtures, Definitions

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• Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Density, Culture, Manhattan

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• As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Airports, Shopping, Organization

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• In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Art, Real, Design

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• Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, Mean, Technology

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• I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

  Gates McFadden

  Gardening, Hairstyles, Obsessive

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• I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

  Nico Tortorella

  Art, School, College

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