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Architecture Quotes

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Music Truth Architecture Poetry Way

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.

Life Architecture Space Ideas Evolve

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

Love History Walk Architecture You

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

Architecture Way Up Own Take Just

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Architecture Book Century Oldest

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

Architecture People World Environment

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Art Dance Architecture Painting Way

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

Nature Light Architecture Flying You

I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

Architecture Fashion Glass Interested

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Alexandre de Betak

Love Time Architecture I Am Up Very

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

Simple Architecture Mountains Space

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

Architecture Space Violence Neighbors

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Architecture People Fruit House Goal

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 Building Connection Try

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Power Architecture More Need Made

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

Great Art Architecture Religion View

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

God Architecture Purpose Me Drawing

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Learning Science Architecture Help

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Science Architecture Control Others

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Work Hope Architecture Die Long Aim

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Stephen Gardiner

Today Architecture Flexibility Most

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

Theodor Mommsen

Art Architecture Find Say Nothing

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.

Thomas Heatherwick

Culture Architecture World Energy

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

Beautiful Architecture Flowers Grace

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