Architecture Quotes - Page 31

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

  Vidal Sassoon

  Hair, Elements, Humans

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• Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sculpture, Frozen, Spirituality

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• Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Noses, Painting, Shows

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• As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

  Prince Charles

  Art, Technology, Drawing

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• 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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• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

  Leon Krier

  Architect, I Can

  Leon Krier (2011). “The Architecture of Community”, Island Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

  Alvar Aalto

  Ideas, Creative, Needs

  Alvar Aalto, Alvar Aalto-museo (1994). “Alvar Aalto: points of contact”

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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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• Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

  Alvar Aalto

  Ties, Earth, Locals

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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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• 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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• L’architecture est art de suggestion.

  Daniel Pennac

  Art, Suggestions

  Daniel Pennac (2012). “La Petite marchande de prose - La saga Malaussène”, p.122, Editions Gallimard

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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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• The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

  Peter Eisenman

  Needs, Compromise, Made

  "Which are the world's ugliest buildings?" by Jonathan Morrison, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2008.

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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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• One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

  Aldo Rossi

  Life, Cities, Study

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• If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, House, Tasks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Architecture is an expression of values.

  Norman Foster

  Expression, Values

  Interview with Max Tholl, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. October 16, 2014.

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• The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

  Samuel

  Practice, Engagement, Participation

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