Architecture Quotes - Page 12

• 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 not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.

  Moshe Safdie

  Beauty, Money, Believe

  "Moshe Safdie: Global Citizen". worldarchitecture.org. November 21, 2013.

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• The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

  Richard Meier

  Responsibility, Order, Sense Of Place

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• If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mankind, Ifs, Comfortable

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.215, OUP Oxford

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• Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Language, Poet, Very Good

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• In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

  Tadao Ando

  Thinking, Logical Reasoning, Results

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• It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  Alvar Aalto

  Giving, Tasks, Structure

  "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

  Le Corbusier

  Chairs, Sofas, Bourgeois

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• in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

  Ayn Rand

  Mediocrity, Lines, Building

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.156, Penguin

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• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Falling Water, Poet, Mechanization

  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1953). “THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE”

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• Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation is based on understanding.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Understanding, Information, Frozen

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• I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Travel, Garden, Cities

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• To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

  Frei Otto

  Real, Mean, Borders

  Frei Otto (2010). “A Conversation with Frei Otto”

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• Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.

  Odile Decq

  Discipline, Profession

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• There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

  Jaime Lerner

  Creativity, Cities, Tree

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• Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. "The client made me do this." "The city made me do this." "Oh, the budget." I don't believe that anymore.

  Frank Gehry

  Believe, Cities, Looks

  Interview with Alex Hoyt, www.theatlantic.com. May 2011.

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• Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Play, Cities

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• I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

  Frank Gehry

  Dry, Dull, Want

  "Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2011.

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• Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

  Timothee Besset

  Code Quality, Matter, Linux

  "id Software and Linux – By TTimo". Linux Gaming News, linuxgamingnews.org. September 15, 2009.

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• I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

  Barbara Kruger

  Night, Thinking, Space

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• Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Style, Unapologetic, Pursuit

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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• The room is the beginning of architecture.

  Louis Kahn

  Rooms

  Louis I. Kahn, Peter S. Reed (1970). “Global architecture”

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• I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

  Hayden Christensen

  Thinking, Interesting, Hollywood

  "In brief: Chaplin's suit goes for £3,100". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beauty, Long, Lasts

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• The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

  Alain de Botton

  Kindness, Order, Should Have

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