Architecture Quotes - Page 18

• Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

  Leon Krier

  Age, Spirit, Incarnation

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.71, Papadakis Publisher

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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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• When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

  Robert Venturi

  Order, Giving, Anomalies

  Robert Venturi, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1977). “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture”, p.41, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

  Jan Gehl

  Successful, Scales, Interaction

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• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Design

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• We have to base architecture on the environment.

  Toyo Ito

  Environment

  "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

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• It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

  Zaha Hadid

  Today, Building, Typology

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• I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jewels, Cities, Trying

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

  Zaha Hadid

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

  Zaha Hadid

  Nice, Design, Quality

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  Zaha Hadid

  Simple, Thinking, Make You Think

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• Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

  Kenzo Tange

  Cities, Consideration, Importance

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• I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Magazines, Saws

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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. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

  Zaha Hadid

  School, Thinking, Space

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• If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

  Peter Zumthor

  Simple, Space, Mountain

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• There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.

  Peter Zumthor

  Sleep, Thinking, Silence

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

  Peter Zumthor

  Believe, Space, Ideas

  "Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor". Interview with Robin Pogrebin, www.nytimes.com. April 12, 2009.

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• I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

  Jean Nouvel

  Games, Play, My Favorite

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• We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

  Richard Meier

  Past, Long, Tradition

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• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

  Richard Meier

  Rome, Cities, Frozen

  "Building in Rome, no holiday / The eternal city wants to keep its architecture fixed in time, but the Ara Pacis marks a renaissance of modern era" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Art, Sculpture, Frontiers

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• I am always searching for more light and space.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Light, Space

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• Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

  Shigeru Ban

  People, House, Invisible

  "Paper Palaces" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2014.

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• Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Motivation, Inspiration, Believe

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