Architecture Quotes - Page 35

• All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Political, Style, Important

  ""Evil Can also Be Beautiful"". Interview with Matthias Matussek, Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Editing, Together, Scripts

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• The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Cutting, Views, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.

  Christopher Bailey

  Creating Things, People, Design

  Source: www.theblondesalad.com

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• I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in one pot.

  Christopher Bailey

  Fashion, Images Of Love, Three

  Source: www.theblondesalad.com

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• The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

  Emily Haines

  Song, Kind, Built

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

  Bill Henson

  Rooms, Breathtaking, Connecting

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

  Invader

  Art, Nice, Home

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• The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect with as babies. It is the focus of our attention in our relationships with each other. The face and the human figure express all we are. Everything else - architecture, art, even landscape - we usually understand in relation to us.

  Dave McKean

  Baby, Art, Two

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.

  Christopher Bailey

  Growing Up, Dad, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.

  Paul Goldberger

  Real, Design, Way

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"

  Len Wiseman

  Stars, War, Drawing

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Music, Garden, Soul

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• I cry out for order and find it only in art.

  Helen Hayes

  Art, Order, Cry

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.233, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.

  Vikram Chandra

  Beautiful, Thinking, Seductive

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• All real education is the architecture of the soul.

  William Bennett

  Education, Real, Soul

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• Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

  John Osborne

  Old Buildings, Building, Hard

  'The Entertainer' (1957) no. 7

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• Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Past, Imagination

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• Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Hard Times

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• If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

  William Morris

  Wall, Nice, Judgement

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• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  Kenneth Clark

  Men, Gdp, Opera

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

  Richard Rogers

  Art, Believe, School

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• I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.

  Nicole Krauss

  Strong, Doors, Rooms

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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• The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Character, Past

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• I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Wall, Thinking, Space

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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