Architecture Quotes - Page 30

• I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

  Frank Gehry

  Passion, Opportunity, Trying

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

  Michael Graves

  Design, Affair, Building

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• Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

  Frank Gehry

  Vacation, People, Generations

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• Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Chinese, Purpose, Structure

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• I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Beautiful, Sight, Happy Times

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• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Notebook, Morning, Men

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 384), 1973.

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Effort, Greek, Style

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  America, Blind Spots, Today

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• I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Landlord, Knows

  1932 In Frederick Gutheim (ed) Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: selected writings (1894-1940).

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• Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Quality, World

  1930 In Frederick Gutheim (ed) Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: selected writings (1894-1940).

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• The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

  Carl Sagan

  Brain, Connections, Machines

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 278, 1980.

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• I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

  Charlie Rose

  Directors, Film, Intrigued

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 2, 2013.

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• A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

  David Chipperfield

  Levels, Ridiculous, Building

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• Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

  David Chipperfield

  Interesting, Balls, Found

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.

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• Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

  David Chipperfield

  Britain, Lasting, Bargains

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• I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD in comparative literature so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called FMR, so we have a common interest in design.

  David Chipperfield

  Art, Book, Wife

  "My space". Interview with Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

  David Chipperfield

  Thinking, Years, Cost

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.

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• I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

  David Chipperfield

  Age, Trying, Timeless

  "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

  David Chipperfield

  Children, Believe, Book

  "Inside the homes of our star architects". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• For me, architecture is a social act.

  David Adjaye

  Social

  "A Sense of Place" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

  Dean Koontz

  House, Ghost, Surround

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• We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Animal, Discovery, Years

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams”, p.283, Random House

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• Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

  Simone Weil

  People, Personality, Iliad

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.

  James Laver

  Religious, Years, Two

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• Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

  Roland Barthes

  Dream, Expression, Utopia

  Roland Barthes (1997). “The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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