Architecture Quotes - Page 23

• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Equality, Reality, House

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• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  Parker Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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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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• 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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• Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Social Values, Imagination, Design

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• Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.

  Joshua Prince-Ramus

  Determination, Team, People

  "The Architect of a Different Kind of Organization" by Jena Mcgregor, www.fastcompany.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, People, Design

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• When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

  Stephen Kanner

  Design, Understanding, Site

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• Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

  Claudio Silvestrin

  Beautiful, Giving, Decor

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• We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Space, World, Divinity

  "Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

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• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Half, Painting

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• There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not neglect. For example, energy, resources, costs, social aspects - one must always pay attention to all these.

  Eduardo Souto de Moura

  Intelligent, Energy, Example

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• God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

  Alvar Aalto

  Drawing, Abuse, Purpose

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• Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

  Alvar Aalto

  Civilization, Culture

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• The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

  Alvar Aalto

  Essence, Style, Development

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Coffee, Apples

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Trying, Rock N Roll

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• My painting does not come from the easel.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Doe, Painting

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

  E. B. White

  Grandma, Looks, Littles

  "The Old and the New". The New Yorker, June 19, 1937.

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• Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Creative, Mythology

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• When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Done

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• I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

  Toyo Ito

  Thinking, Pieces, Clothings

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• I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

  Helmut Jahn

  Taken, Strive

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• Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Art, Children, Drama

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• Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Self, Feelings

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