Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Architecture Quotes

Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.

Beautiful Architecture Mind Me Ideas

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

Experience Architecture Man I Am

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Good Architecture Good Things End Up

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

Style Architecture Small Down Clock

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Arthur Erickson

Heart Great Architecture Buildings

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

Music Architecture Thinking You Fall

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Good Architecture Obstacles Building

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

Elizabeth Diller

Art Architecture School Ideas About

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

Work Today Architecture Celebrate

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

Architecture Suits Design Shoe Like

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.

Football Architecture School Fun You

I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.

Elizabeth Diller

Architecture Thought Rebel Build

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Art Architecture Building Then

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

Architecture Political Ideology Any

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Art Architecture Think Process Want

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

David Chipperfield

Work Good Architecture Building You

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Great Architecture Value Color More

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Nancy Banks Smith

Experience Architecture Door You Leg

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

Music Style Architecture Poetry Look

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.

Charlotte Bunch

Women Architecture Equality Reality

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

Annabelle Selldorf

Quality Architecture Interesting Must

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.

Culture Architecture City Building

The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a relationship with. He was first our manager and then our soundman. When I met him, he was in design school for architecture, so he was always drawing.

Relationship Heart Architecture Early

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Power Architecture Mistake People

First Prev 11 121314 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Architecture