Top 1200 Landscape Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.
I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.
In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.
I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.
I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.
Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.
In Africa, animals and the natural landscape allow local communities to support themselves, as there is a constant source of money from tourism.
There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
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.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.
I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.
In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
I believe that in today's media landscape, we can create and distribute content on multiple platforms while remaining fresh and relevant.
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.
I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.
The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.
All we have and are is based on the Christian faith, which has shaped law, government, morals, music, landscape, and education here for a thousand years.
