Architecture Quotes - Page 32

• The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

  Georges Bataille

  Silence, Church, Dams

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• The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture

  Fred Brooks

  Data, Organization, Design

  "Architecture of the IBM System". IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 8, 1964.

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• He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

  Christopher Wren

  Christian, Opinion, Refined

  "Conclusion of the life of Sir Christopher Wren". The Magazine of Magazines, p. 11, January 1759.

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• The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

  Philip Johnson

  Cities, Automobile, Catastrophe

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• I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

  Larry Wall

  Typewriters, Views, Ought

  Usenet article <199808050415.VAA24026@wall.org>, 1998.

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• London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.

  Iain Sinclair

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global

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• As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

  Robert Crumb

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Country, School, Please Me

  Oscar Niemeyer's acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1988.

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• Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Taken, Unity, Criminals

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

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• Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

  Hugh Casson

  Understood

  1948 An Introduction to Victorian Architecture.

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• To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

  Wade Guyton

  Taken, Space, Accounts

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• For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

  Leon Krier

  Analogies, Models, Indication

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.32, Papadakis Publisher

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• The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.

  Lawrence Lessig

  War, Creativity, People

  WIPO Magazine Interview, www.wipo.int. February, 2011.

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• There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences in the regulations effected through code distinguish different parts of the Internet and cyberspace. In some places, life is fairly free; in other places, it is more controlled. And the difference between these spaces is simply a difference in the architectures of control--that is, a difference in code.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Differences, Space, Different

  Lawrence Lessig (2008). “Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Extravagance, Debt, Gothic

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• I like the architecture of lingerie.

  Colleen Atwood

  Lingerie

  "Costume Legend Colleen Atwood and Composer Marco Beltrami Reflect On Their Careers". Interview with Zainab Akande, www.indiewire.com. November 7, 2014.

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• Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Children, Clients

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.17, Princeton Architectural Press

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• My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Forget, Easy, Enjoy

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• Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Becoming, Psilocybin

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• I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

  Tadao Ando

  Believe, Wind, Too Much

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• If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

  Edith Wharton

  May, Sanity, Proportion

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Music, Art, Way

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, Italian, Lunch

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• The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

  Alvar Aalto

  People, Goal, House

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• I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, Hobbies, Irs

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