Architecture Quotes - Page 22

• Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

  Hassan Fathy

  Inspirational, Egypt, Feet

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• The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

  Norman Foster

  Dumb, Driving, Computer

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• If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Wisdom, Finding Yourself

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• New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

  Francis Picabia

  New York, Cities, Spirit

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• Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

  Frank Gehry

  Men, Somewhere Else

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• When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Building

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• Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Order, White, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• When does a building actually become a built?

  Le Corbusier

  Doe, Building, Built

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• But what if we are dealing with fools?

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  What If, Fool, Ifs

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• Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Art, Warrior

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• If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

  Brian Foote

  Thinking, Design, Trying

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• He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

  Michelangelo

  Beauty, Principles, Doe

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• It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

  Andy Clark

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

  I. M. Pei

  Art, Believe, Foundation

  I. M. Pei (1983). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983: Presented to Ieoh Ming Pei”

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• Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

  I. M. Pei

  Life, Eye, Reflection

  1989 Les Grands desseins du Louvre (with E J Biasini).

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• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  I. M. Pei

  Times Have Changed, Roots, Want

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• Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

  Edwin Arnold

  Passion, Stones, Taj Mahal

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• I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

  Helmut Jahn

  Taken, Strive

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• Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Art, Children, Drama

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• Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Self, Feelings

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• The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Christian, Rome

  "The Problem" l. 19 (1847)

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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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• My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Exercise, Design, Furniture

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

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• Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Fighting, House, Design

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• Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

  Robert Evans

  Depressing, Creativity, Principles

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