Architecture Quotes - Page 25

• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

  Kenzo Tange

  Special, Development, Urban

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• There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart

  Kenzo Tange

  Powerful, Heart, Mean

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• In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.

  Peter Zumthor

  Memories, Essence, Feelings

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• Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

  Peter Zumthor

  Past, Quality, Body

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Art, Makeup

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• To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures.

  Thierry Mugler

  Dream, Needs, Location

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• Our collaboration with Datapipe on a managed hybrid cloud solution for AWS removes many of the common barriers to cloud adoption. It offers customers the best of both worlds by providing Equinix's secure data center platform, including private access to AWS, along with Datapipe's expertise in designing and managing an optimal IT architecture for enterprises.

  John Landy

  Data, Clouds, Adoption

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• You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

  Renzo Piano

  Criticism, Harmony, Accepting

  "The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator". Interview With Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2012.

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• The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Echoes, Subjectivity

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• When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Thinking, People, Doe

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• There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Reading, Technology, Library

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• The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Eye, Secret, More Than Meets The Eye

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• The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.

  Julie Mehretu

  Space, Political, Understanding

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• Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of a geometric order, and the transitory, changing forms of our actual world. The content of our experience results from an immaterial, abstract, geometric architecture which is composed of harmonic waves of energy, nodes of relationality, melodic forms springing forth from the eternal realm of geometric proportion.

  Robert Lawlor

  Unique, Order, World

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• Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

  Winston Damarillo

  Source, Wells, Code

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• Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

  Bill Mollison

  Technology, Creating, Urban Renewal

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• Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Art, Long, Doe

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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• For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

  Tom Kenyon

  Sound, Cosmos, Language

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• I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Fields, Approach

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• I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

  Daryl Hall

  House, Antiques, Indulgence

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• If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a bright opportunity to influence users. Content is not a nice-to-have extra. Content is a star of the user experience show. Let’s make content shine.

  Colleen Jones

  Stars, Nice, Opportunity

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• People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

  Marc Newson

  People, Design, Needs

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• You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

  Nate Berkus

  Needs, Stuff, Lots Of Money

  "The Fashionable Life". www.harpersbazaar.com. Jul 15, 2013.

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• The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.

  Tom Turner

  Mean, Garden, Cities

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• Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Labels, Landscape

  Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.11, Taylor & Francis

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