Top 1200 Information Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression and resignation and is not empowering. The information has to be presented in a way that's linked to the piece about encouraging students to think critically and creatively about how they might respond to injustice, and how young people have responded to injustice in the past.

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ.? If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

If we, on our most fundamental level, are packets of quantum energy constantly exchanging information with this heaving energy sea, it means that all of us connect with each other and the world at the level of the very undercoat of our being. It also means that we have the power to access much more information about the world than we realize.

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

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.

while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he'd be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

The first people that have the information are the hair and makeup ladies and the wardrobe people, because they often have to plan out the clothes: the things that are gonna get bloody, and the different kinds of gunshot wounds they're gonna have to do. They often have more of a preparation, more time, than we do. You can definitely feel on set the actors trying to get that information, and they're of sworn to secrecy.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols.

Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center in Ireland. It's not about a US citizen, but we want it." Microsoft said, "OK, fine. Go to a judge in Ireland. Ask them for a warrant. We have a mutual legal-assistance treaty. They'll do it. Give that to us, and we'll provide the information to you in accordance with Irish laws."

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

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

The show is called The Office and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

I don't think a reporter necessarily becomes an arm of law enforcement. I think a reporter is like any other citizen. If a citizen can do his or her duty as a witness, if they have information about a crime, or if they have information about a criminal group, I think that there's a duty on the part of the citizen.