I am but an architectural composer.
I am but an architectural composer.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
I'm not an architectural composer.
I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.
It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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