Top 1200 Modern Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

I think there is a modern temper. The authority figures we revered in the past are all up for grabs - they're gone. We are groping for meaning in a world where some of our gods have died. We're asking ourselves, 'Who is our true brother and sister, where is our true home?' The modern tempter is our struggle to lead meaningful lives, and even if we don't believe in religion, we can reach down and hold on to our core values for guidance.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

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.

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

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

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

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

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

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

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

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

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.

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

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

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

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

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

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

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

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

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

Certainly a big challenge for me with evening-wear is to make it look modern and artistic and avant-garde. The very concept of a ball gown is not in itself a modern concept, and women need to wear that for a certain presence in Hollywood. I'm also aware that a starlet might go to more than one place that night so the piece could also offer, maybe not a revolution, but an evolution.

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.

What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

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

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

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

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

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 a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

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.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

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.

Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now exists, perhaps within a window of 50-100,000 years ago, a flick of an eye in evolutionary time.

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

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

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

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

Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.