Top 1200 Modern Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

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.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps- competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization.

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

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

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.

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

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 political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

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.

I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

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.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

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 restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

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.

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than the natural world that we evolved to hear, we learn to think of listening not as taking in all the information with equal value, which is the definition of true listening. In our modern world, we tend to think of listening as focusing our attention on what is important and filtering out everything else.

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

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

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.

It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.

Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

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.'

The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

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

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.