Architecture Quotes - Page 19

• I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

  George Hickenlooper

  Movie, Art, Thinking

  "Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His “Zelig” with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenh". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. March 26, 2004.

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• True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Country, Views

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.36, Graphic Arts Books

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• For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates, 18 x 24 format, artistic documents of the beautiful civil architecture of the 16th to the 19th century: the old hôtels, historic or curious houses, beautiful facades, beautiful doors, beautiful woodwork, door knockers, old fountains This vast artistic and documentary collection is today complete. I can truthfully say that I possess all of Vieux Paris.

  Eugene Atget

  Beautiful, Doors, Years

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• This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Attention, Literature

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• My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

  Donald Barthelme

  Mother, Drama, Father

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• By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

  Piet Mondrian

  Reality, Sculpture, Painting

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

  Leon Krier

  Age, Spirit, Incarnation

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.71, Papadakis Publisher

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• In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

  Leon Krier

  Cities, Skylines, Facts

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.83, Papadakis Publisher

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• When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

  Robert Venturi

  Order, Giving, Anomalies

  Robert Venturi, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1977). “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture”, p.41, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

  Jan Gehl

  Successful, Scales, Interaction

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• We have to base architecture on the environment.

  Toyo Ito

  Environment

  "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

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• It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

  Zaha Hadid

  Today, Building, Typology

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• I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jewels, Cities, Trying

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

  Zaha Hadid

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• 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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Nice, Design, Quality

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  Zaha Hadid

  Simple, Thinking, Make You Think

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• Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

  Kenzo Tange

  Cities, Consideration, Importance

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• I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Magazines, Saws

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• If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

  Peter Zumthor

  Simple, Space, Mountain

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• There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.

  Peter Zumthor

  Sleep, Thinking, Silence

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

  Peter Zumthor

  Believe, Space, Ideas

  "Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor". Interview with Robin Pogrebin, www.nytimes.com. April 12, 2009.

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• I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

  Jean Nouvel

  Games, Play, My Favorite

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• We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

  Richard Meier

  Past, Long, Tradition

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• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

  Richard Meier

  Rome, Cities, Frozen

  "Building in Rome, no holiday / The eternal city wants to keep its architecture fixed in time, but the Ara Pacis marks a renaissance of modern era" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2006.

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