Top 1200 Modern Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus from the moment that technics, the State, or production, are facts, we must worship them as facts, and we must try to adapt ourselves to them. This is the very heart of modern religion, the religion of the established fact, the religion on which depend the lesser religions of the dollar, race, or the proletariat, which are only expressions of the great modern divinity, the Moloch of fact.

With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do. When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.