Top 1200 Modern Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.

Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.

We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

The architecture in Barcelona is very unique, and I think it's something to truly spend some time getting to know all the cool places.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery, animals or great architecture.

Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it's very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the architecture. It's amazing for outfit of the day shots.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to find what the architecture is of the sound.

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

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

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other's culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

The only thing I learned from the architecture is keep the bathroom and the kitchen near each other, so you don't have to run pipes all over the place.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly; the majority of scientists deny it could possibly be there at all. It plays no part in popular culture: no one sings about it, no one talks about it in plays, and it's not on TV. We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.