Architecture Quotes - Page 37

• Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Age, Machines

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1955). “An American architecture”, Horizon Pr

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• You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Expression, People

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.274, University of Virginia Press

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• Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Helping, Judgment

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.3

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• Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Form

  Bernard Tschumi (2012). “Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.

  Terence McKenna

  Beautiful, Moving, Style

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• Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Different, Mars

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.

  Nina Jacobson

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Artist, Cinema, Movement

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• ... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!

  Herbert Spencer

  Queens, Men, Heaven

  Herbert Spencer (1866). “Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.83

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• The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

  Victor Hugo

  Father, Circles, Age

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.343, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reality, Space, Democracy

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• The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Growing Up, Heart, Opportunity

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• The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, Raymond W. Gastil (1986). “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Lying, Tragedy

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.84, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

  Louis Aragon

  Photography, Squares, Illustration

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• Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

  Hugh Dalton

  Home, Example, Found

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• I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

  Edward Hopper

  Eye, Giving, Perspective

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• I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Real, Building, Draws

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.

  Andre Øvredal

  Details, Pieces, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

  Joseph Kosinski

  New York, School, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.

  Joseph Kosinski

  School, Night, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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• Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world - he comes from advertising and architecture - he's extremely easy-going and very calm. He's extremely detailed, but a very generous and fun director to work with. He really encouraged me to find the fun in the part and to have fun with it.

  James Frain

  Fun, Guy, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

  David Adjaye

  People, Design, Rich

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• Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.

  Peter Behrens

  Mean, Expression, Giving

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• Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses.

  Max Dupain

  Eye, Emotional, Mind

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