Top 1200 Landscape Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.
The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning.
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses
I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.
At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business.
Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.
If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.
Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.
In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be 'desert'), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.
Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.
Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.
In a 24/7 landscape of rolling news, social media, phone alerts and notifications it's all too easy to feel numbed by all the shouting.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
I think the implications for the rise of China are huge in terms of the political landscape, economic balance, de-velopment thinking, and the environment.
People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.