Architecture And Design Quotes - Page 3

• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

  Renzo Piano

  Badass, Fighting, Bad Ass

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• The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

  Kevin McCloud

  Badass, Bad Ass, Fancy

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• Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

  Chris Bangle

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

  Zaha Hadid

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, People

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

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• Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

  Adolf Loos

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

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• I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

  Thomas Fuller

  Beauty, God, Daughter

  'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'

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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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• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Badass, Bad Ass

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Badass, Bad Ass, Sculpture

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• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

  Ayn Rand

  Badass, Bad Ass, Order

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• To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

  Ai Weiwei

  Badass, Bad Ass, Criticism

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• In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

  Badass, Bad Ass, Should Have

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9

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• People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

  Tom Kundig

  Badass, Home, Mean

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• We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Cities

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• I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

  Fumihiko Maki

  Badass, Eye, Bad Ass

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• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Meaningful, Badass, Bad Ass

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• I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

  Carrie Fulton Phillips

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

  Bruno Munari

  Badass, Bad Ass, Use

  Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

  Richard Neutra

  Morning, Badass, Bad Ass

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• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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