Architecture Quotes - Page 38

• I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to sell. He's not a merchandiser. He doesn't know how to express his own image. He doesn't know how to create a design of his image... And I do it. I've done it all my career over half a century, and it gets better.

  Julius Shulman

  Stupid, Average, Careers

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• I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.

  Julius Shulman

  Photography, Design, Mind

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• The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fighting, Order, Organization

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• I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

  Jools Holland

  Thinking, Listening, Playing Music

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• Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

  Mark Driscoll

  Song, Prayer, Smell

  "What's Wrong With Candles, Incense, And Icons?", www.thebereancall.org. December 8, 2007.

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• When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Writing, Plot, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.

  Sean Lennon

  Dad, Father, Appreciate

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• "Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

  Bruce Sterling

  Design, Inquiry, Stories

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• Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

  Daniel Dennett

  Church, Done, Treasure

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• Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.

  Ivan Illich

  Meaningful, Men, Circles

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Use, Common

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.8

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• In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

  John Ruskin

  Views, Noble, Gothic

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.18

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• As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.

  Robert Venturi

  Writing, Artist, Past

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• Bill Sofield has the ability to understand the architecture of a space and how to utilize it in the most beautiful way. He can create completely different styles for his clients based on who they are and what their taste is. Our efforts have always been collaborative, and I value what he brings to the table architecturally and aesthetically.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Space, Effort

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• Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.

  Gordon Brown

  Should Have, Years, People

  "'Sometimes it takes a crisis': PM calls for biggest financial overhaul since 1944" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2008.

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• Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, Ideas, Stories

  "Exploring Things: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson On 'Anomalisa'". Interview with Brian Tallerico, www.rogerebert.com. December 29, 2015.

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• When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When the product isn't yet good enough, the way you compete is by making better products. In order to make better products, the architecture of the product has to be interdependent and proprietary in character.

  Clayton Christensen

  Character, Order, Way

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

  Clayton Christensen

  Not Good Enough, Information, Needs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

  Jonathan Meades

  Source: thequietus.com

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• At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the late Conservative years - the end of Thatcher/start of Major and certainly continued throughout New Labour and continuing now - that new is necessarily better, so there is this neophilia which isn't the vanguard of progress, it's just the vanguard of the construction industry enjoying itself.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, Construction Industry, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

  Joshua Mohr

  Moving, Book, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Hands, People, Utterance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

  St. Lucia

  First Love, Stuff, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.

  St. Lucia

  Beautiful, Book, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.

  Zhang Xin

  Grandchildren, Impact, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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