Architecture Quotes - Page 27

• Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Architecture trumps licensing any time.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Trump, Licensing

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• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  Bernard Levin

  Dog, Pain, War

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• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  Philip Johnson

  Wall, Talking, Rooms

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• When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

  Roman Coppola

  Art, Fans, London

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Art, Painting, Fine

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

  William Devane

  Writing, People, Stories

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• Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

  Jay Griffiths

  Media, Ideas, Climate

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

  Michael Graves

  Ideas, Long, Dialogue

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• When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Art, Writing, Character

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• French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Design, Community, Looks

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Community, Individual, Scales

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

  Tony Hale

  Beautiful, White, House

  "Tony Hale Talks Being a Body Man in ‘Veep’ and the Return of Buster Bluth" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2012.

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• If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, People, Want

  Louis I. Kahn (1983). “ルイス・カーン: 発想と意味”

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• I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Play, Discipline

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• Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

  Richard Meier

  Thinking, People, Polemics

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• I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

  Thom Mayne

  Ideas, Vision, World

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• The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

  Thom Mayne

  Thinking, Ideas, Added Value

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• You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

  Ben Nicholson

  Heaven, Vision, Earth

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• I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

  Oren Peli

  Apples, Facts, Macs

  "Oren Peli: 'I'm not a nerd or a luddite, I'm a geek really'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

  Ruta Sepetys

  New Orleans, Cities, America

  "Ruta Sepetys. Seeker Of Lost Stories". FAQ, rutasepetys.com.

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• In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhism, Design

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• I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Design

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

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• If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Thinking, Artist, Influence

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• So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Trying, Building

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