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Architecture Quotes

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Architecture School Wonder Why Write

There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

Architecture Me Numbers More Side

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

Arthur Erickson

Art Architecture Enemy Necessary

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Parker Stevenson

Architecture Photography Always Been

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

Architecture City Buildings Chicago

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.

Elizabeth Diller

Work Architecture Doing Kind Special

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Beauty Architecture Classic Air Out

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Light Architecture Me Search Drawing

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.

Architecture Artist Buildings Want

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.

History Myself Culture Architecture

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Antoine Predock

Ride Architecture Intellectual

There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

Life Good Time Architecture Think

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

Freedom Architecture Cricket World

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

David Chipperfield

Life Children Architecture Believe

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

Freedom Architecture King Impact

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Architecture Republican Out Democrat

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Architecture Trying Difficult Dancing

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

Art Architecture Believe Say Beyond

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

Architecture Buildings Shape Us Our

In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be.

Today Community Together Architecture

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Architecture School Me Design China

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

Good Beautiful Politics Architecture

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

Architecture Walls Talking You Body

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

Nature Sea Architecture Mountains

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