Architecture Quotes - Page 27

• You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

  Renzo Piano

  Criticism, Harmony, Accepting

  "The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator". Interview With Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2012.

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• For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Hair, Elements, Humans

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• I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Two, Differences, Design

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Exercise, Design, Furniture

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

  Nate Berkus

  Needs, Stuff, Lots Of Money

  "The Fashionable Life". www.harpersbazaar.com. Jul 15, 2013.

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• Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Fighting, House, Design

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• Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

  Robert Evans

  Depressing, Creativity, Principles

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• If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a bright opportunity to influence users. Content is not a nice-to-have extra. Content is a star of the user experience show. Let’s make content shine.

  Colleen Jones

  Stars, Nice, Opportunity

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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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• The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.

  Tom Turner

  Mean, Garden, Cities

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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• Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Labels, Landscape

  Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.11, Taylor & Francis

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• It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Light, Drawing, Form

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

  Tadao Ando

  Wonder, Speed

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• Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

  Tadao Ando

  Degrees, Connections, Reason

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• Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  What Matters, Drawing, Important

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• When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Essentials, Philosopher

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Architecture
  is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
  we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
  human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
  beautiful context for life's drama.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Drama, Believe

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Political, Ideology, Political Ideology

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

  Roger Scruton

  Lines, May, Closure

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• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

  Kenzo Tange

  Special, Development, Urban

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• A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Dresses, Female, Pieces

  "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New". Book by Marie France Pochna (p. 170), 1996.

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• In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

  Alain Robert

  Hiking, Shapes, Facts

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• Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

  Goldwin Smith

  Beauty, Heart, Ignorant

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

  Larry Wall

  Science, Thinking, Literature

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