Architecture Quotes - Page 28

• Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

  Cedric Price

  Problem, Problem Solvers, Realisation

  Cedric Price (2003). “Re: CP”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

  Cedric Price

  Opportunity, Should Have, Littles

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• A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

  Antoine Predock

  Responsibility, Animal, Thinking

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• In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Fashion, Aesthetic, Wells

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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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• The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Art, Food, Numbers

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

  Tadao Ando

  Wonder, Speed

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• Architecture is definitely a political act.

  Peter Eisenman

  Political

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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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• There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart

  Kenzo Tange

  Powerful, Heart, Mean

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• In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.

  Peter Zumthor

  Memories, Essence, Feelings

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• Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

  Peter Zumthor

  Past, Quality, Body

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Art, Makeup

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• To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures.

  Thierry Mugler

  Dream, Needs, Location

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• Our collaboration with Datapipe on a managed hybrid cloud solution for AWS removes many of the common barriers to cloud adoption. It offers customers the best of both worlds by providing Equinix's secure data center platform, including private access to AWS, along with Datapipe's expertise in designing and managing an optimal IT architecture for enterprises.

  John Landy

  Data, Clouds, Adoption

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• 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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• The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Fighting, People, Groups

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• The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Echoes, Subjectivity

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• When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Thinking, People, Doe

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• There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Reading, Technology, Library

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• I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

  Sydney Pollack

  Photography, Art, Writing

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• The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Eye, Secret, More Than Meets The Eye

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