Architecture Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

  Samuel

  Social Values, Addresses, Aesthetic

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• Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

  Trevor Paglen

  Art, Real, Space

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• The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Important, Pieces, Landscape

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• Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

  Jean Nouvel

  Cinema, Movement, Dimensions

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• The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

  Aga Khan IV

  Mean, Awards, Trying

  Interview with Robert Ivy, www.architecturalrecord.com. February 1, 2002.

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• The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

  Antoine Predock

  Long, Landscape, Concepts

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• 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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• Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

  Cedric Price

  Moving, Medicine

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• Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

  Cedric Price

  Environment, Distortion, Concern

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• Home is where you hang your hangover.

  James Crumley

  Hangover, Home, Sweet Home

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.165, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Light, Fog, Details

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

  Robert Palmer

  Dancing, Musical, Trying

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• People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that came from a woman who lives here in Paris...I know my street much better. Heels permit me to take the time to look at the architecture of my street. Now I take time to look at things.' High heels give you time to think, to look at your surroundings- a camel has seen more in life than a very quick horse! Women should live to rhythm of high-heeled shoes!

  Christian Louboutin

  Horse, Thinking, High Heels

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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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• I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

  Michael Graves

  Style, Requirements

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• All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

  Dean Koontz

  Reflection, Space, People

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.378, Bantam

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• Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Nature, Travel

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

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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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• Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

  Al Capp

  Sarcastic, Art, Abstract

  In National Observer 1 July 1963

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• My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Ambition, Support, Important

  "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

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