Architecture Quotes - Page 30

• I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Chance, Study

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• In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

  Peter Zumthor

  Waste, Resistance, Language

  Peter Zumthor (1999). “Architektur denken”

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• Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.

  Sebastian Bach

  Beautiful, Cities, Shopping

  "Ex-Skid Row Frontman Sebastian Bach on What's Cool in Canada". Interview with Avinash Ramsadeen, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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• If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

  Leon Krier

  Ideas, Political, Towns

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• Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

  Leon Krier

  Towns, Planning, Evolution

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• Architects cannot teach nature anything.

  Mark Twain

  Architect, Teach, Lecturer

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.319, Courier Corporation

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• Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

  Thom Mayne

  Art, Interesting, World

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• You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

  Leon Krier

  Intellectual, Needs, Want

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• I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, People, Enough

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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 truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, Hero, Writing

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• I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

  Toyo Ito

  Cities, People, Community

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• I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

  Twyla Tharp

  Wells, Feels, Handle

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• The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Creating, World

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Strong, Invention, Used

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• The
  blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic
  technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within
  an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new
  ...design science for the post-petroleum era.

  John Todd

  Technology, Wind, Creating

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• The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

  Amitai Etzioni

  Issues, Organization, Needs

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• Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Real, Spirit, Battleground

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.9, Princeton Architectural Press

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• If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, People, Want

  Louis I. Kahn (1983). “ルイス・カーン: 発想と意味”

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• I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

  Thom Mayne

  Ideas, Vision, World

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• I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Play, Discipline

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• Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

  Richard Meier

  Thinking, People, Polemics

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• The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Internet, Incredibles, Democratization

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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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