Architecture Quotes - Page 40

• I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.

  Nicole Krauss

  Strong, Doors, Rooms

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Past, Imagination

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• It was very definitely architectural. I was using the words on the page as some kind of equivalent of a physical model. But I never thought at that point that I wanted to move toward architecture. I wanted to move toward real space. Sure, that's probably another way of saying, I want to move toward architecture. But I didn't define real space in terms of architecture, then.

  Vito Acconci

  Real, Moving, Space

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation.

  Jim Woodring

  Art, Writing, Symphony

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Mean, Sea

  "The Faraway Nearby". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.npr.org. June 6, 2013.

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• It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

  Patricia Churchland

  Brain, Doe, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key.

  John Gimlette

  Keys, Borders, Wonderland

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

  Jimenez Lai

  Other Cultures, Cities, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

  Jimenez Lai

  Communication, Form

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Thinking, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.

  Christine Jennings

  Beautiful, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.

  Patrick Seguin

  Furniture, Passed Away, Percent

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview with Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

  John Ruskin

  Views, Noble, Gothic

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.18

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• As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Pride, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

  Daniel Dennett

  Church, Done, Treasure

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• Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

  Henry Giroux

  Punishment, Racism, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

  Jimenez Lai

  Thinking, Order, Bylaws

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  Bob Barr

  Beautiful, Country, Gun

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• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Order, Play, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Sculpture, Painting

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Real, Details, Building

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• The future of architecture is culture.

  Philip Johnson

  Culture

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• Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

  Peter York

  Chandeliers, Jewellery

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• When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.

  Jonathan Hale

  Attitude, House, Effort

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• The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

  David Chipperfield

  Differences, Good And Bad

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home". Interview with Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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