Architecture Quotes - Page 40

• The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

  Henry Giroux

  Fashion, War, Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

  Henry Giroux

  Punishment, Racism, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think there has only ever been one member of the Federal Parliament from either side found to have been corrupt in the whole history of Australia. I don't think we should create the architecture to solve a problem which barely exists.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Australia, Sides

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.

  Zaha Hadid

  Memories, Father, Aunt

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

  Zaha Hadid

  Ideas, Association, Firsts

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Art, Practice

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

  Zaha Hadid

  Attitude, Technology, Design

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.

  Zaha Hadid

  Organization, Ideas, Drawing

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

  Zaha Hadid

  Pieces, Form, Products

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, Agendas, Social

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

  Zaha Hadid

  Worry, May, Conservative

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been.

  Paula Scher

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• I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are - it is like going into a church. There is also something home-like about the layout of the museum. I wish I could live there!

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Home, Museums

  Source: newwest.net

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• I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Trying, My Family, Worthwhile

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

  Richard Meier

  Art, Museums, Different

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

  Andrew Lam

  Writing, Abstract Painting, Fiction

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

  Ai Weiwei

  Photography, Art, People

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

  Ai Weiwei

  Believe, Collaboration, Made

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Looks, Brooklyn

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always viewed the Paris Agreement as a starting point. If you look at all the commitments that have been made by all the countries, it's still not sufficient to deal with the very dangerous situation we face. What it has done is that it created an architecture whereby as technology improves, as we find new clean sources of energy, as we make our economies more efficient, then gradually we can turn up the dial and improve the outcomes of Paris.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Commitment, Technology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.

  Quentin Crisp

  Beautiful, Rain, Sky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just love architecture, and I just love the idea of being someone who sees the world differently and doing everything you can do in order to actualize that dream. And really sticking to your guns when everyone else is telling you that you're crazy.

  Eva Mendes

  Dream, Crazy, Gun

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me.

  Mike Pence

  Growing Up, Unique, Special

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

  Frank Gehry

  Kids, Thinking, Fire

  Source: blog.americansforthearts.org

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