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Architecture Quotes

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Architecture Ship House Rules Never

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Architecture College Year Quit About

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

Light Experience Architecture Space

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Architecture Investigation Essence

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Work Good Architecture People Think

Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.

Love Beauty History Art Architecture

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Thomas a Kempis

Architecture Building Foundation Must

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

Change Future Architecture Living Up

We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

Architecture Believe Problems Think

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.

Life Architecture Chance Political

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

Architecture Green Intellectual Now

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

Architecture Wrong More Out Up

Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.

Nature Architecture Action Think You

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

Art Architecture Lunch Energy Giving

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

Architecture Space Organization Body

A house is a machine for living in.

Architecture House Living Machine

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

Architecture Busy You Buildings Skin

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Michael Mandelbaum

Music Sports Football Architecture

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Simple Architecture Space Mission

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Architecture Changing Faster Than

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Architecture Cold House Emotional

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

Architecture Vacation People World

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

Architecture Movement Housing Modern

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Together Architecture You Place Two

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