Architecture Quotes (311 Quotes)

In America, art has always been suspect and accused of being effete. We are growing beyond that as a culture, just as San Francisco is growing beyond its fear of modern architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

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

The transition to high-definition content demands an architecture for digital content delivery that is robust, high-performance and cost-effective. With today's announcements, Silicon Image continues to drive the architecture and standards that will define the consumer electronics and PC markets of tomorrow.

Right away, you felt the architecture of his music was very strong, so whatever you were going to put on top adornments or improvising you really had to know the material.

We have Victorian houses, Craftsman houses, all kinds of architecture. A lot of people don't realize what a variety we have.

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

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

The idea is to make the architecture more obvious, instead of lining the road with cars in parking lots.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

We believe this upgrade must be revolutionary. We hope to make an architecture decision in the first half of this year.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

We are in the process of creating the architecture of international accountability for human rights violations. You need to hold individuals responsible, but there is a big gap if you can't say the machinery of a state is responsible, too.

All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils.... As soon as I have carried out my program for Germany, I shall take up painting. I feel that I have it in my soul to become one of the great artists of the age and that future historians will remember me not for what I have done for Germany, but for my art. Note Other Nazis who were frustrated artists Goebbles was an obscure poet in his youth Funk was a musician Baldur von Schirach wrote verse Rosenberg dabbled in architecture.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

He's been calling a lot of the plays over the last couple of years. This is his architecture, this is his strategy that Sun is playing. He has really put a lot of energy and new thinking into Sun.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

We have too many buildings in this town and not enough architecture. There's a real tendency in this community to want everything to look the same. The Strip is allowed to do anything, but once you get off the Strip, there's very little originality.

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity-the habit of saying good morning to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

Here is someone who sits in Maine and works here in Portland, but this show takes you to San Francisco and takes you to Rome through imagination and architecture.

You know, they've never done this before, ... They do it with the 'serious' arts. When we went to the American Academy and we threw this idea up, fashion was not on their radar screen. They were not thinking of fashion as something that was up in the league with the antiques, urban studies, and architecture, and poetry - the classics. But somehow, today, fashion has really morphed into something much bigger than it was. With fashion, because there's so much immediacy, and our shows are so globally broadcast, it may be the most immediate visual manifestation of the zeitgeist.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The way that we're putting it together is mainly faculty advisors with mostly student leadership. We're going to be trying to find a good number of students in architecture, engineering, industrial design and business, and our plan is to have a studio next quarter.

He bought two other buildings on Frankford Avenue, too. But it would be nice to have more developers here. There's a lot of opportunity here. We have old buildings where the architecture and the interiors are really interesting.

We have defined Oracle Fusion architecture, certified all Oracle applications on our world-class Oracle Fusion middleware, which includes a set of mature tools that are being used to develop the Oracle Fusion applications.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

When you're in a country like that - the architecture, everything is infused with the importance of religion. The art itself is just incredible. The architecture, the painting, the sculpture.

AMD's architecture was really a well-thought, modern, balanced approach. Intel has to catch up. They're getting there, but they're still struggling to get more performance.

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

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

. . . most of the houses of the Midland town were of a pleasant architecture. They lacked style, but also lacked pretentiousness, and whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Then the architecture of how to build the electronic hardware and software is also done here. It is the next phase, the implementation of producing the microchips and software that largely will be done in India.

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.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

Paul will provide landscape architecture and we'll do civil architecture. We'll help with layout and all of the things he needs for construction.