Architecture Quotes - Page 13

• My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

  Jean Nouvel

  Historical, Today, Technique

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• The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

  Adam Savage

  Lying, Voice, Important

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• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  Peter Eisenman

  Choices, Variation, Algorithms

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• Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Glorify

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• The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Change, Design, Patterns

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Self, Important

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• Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Book, Holiday

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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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• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Civilization, Agriculture

  "Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition".

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• Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Lying, Expression, Technique

  "Painting and plastic art". De Stijl, series XIII, 73-4, pp. 17 - 18, 1926.

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• Architecture is crystallized music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Flower, Domes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.97, Applewood Books

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• I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mind, Paper, Tone

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.356, Ravenio Books

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• You begin with the possibilities of the material.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Possibility, Materials

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• I think architecture has to be a gift.

  Jean Nouvel

  Thinking

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• Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Interesting, Quality, Elements

  "Women in Design: Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Vicky Lowry, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

  Lewis Mumford

  Prophecy, Tombs, Finished

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the city. I have created a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside – where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into a part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Moving, Thinking, Museums

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• In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

  Leon Krier

  Cities, Skylines, Facts

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.83, Papadakis Publisher

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• By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

  Piet Mondrian

  Reality, Sculpture, Painting

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes, House

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• Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I Casually met there who detained me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else Has long been forgotten by me, I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung To me, Again we wander, we love, we separate again, Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go, I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Hands, Cities

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.220, St. Martin's Press

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• Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Literature, Painting

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• The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

  Jandy Nelson

  Fall, Thinking, Air

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• It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

  Anne Ursu

  Talking, White, Perfect

  Anne Ursu (2011). “Breadcrumbs”, p.5, Harper Collins

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