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Architecture Quotes

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Stephen Gardiner

Architecture Aesthetic Logic Applied

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

Change Architecture People Believe

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Struggle Architecture Independence He

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

Architecture World Start Think You

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

Architecture You Look Career Late

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Future Architecture Past You Build

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

Beautiful Architecture You House Go

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Architecture World Think Serious Way

Architecture is always political.

Architecture Political Always

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Robert A. M. Stern

Dreams Architecture Building Talking

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

Architecture Design Die Logic You

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Architecture Nothing Dutch About

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.

Mathematics Architecture Africa Never

In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?

Alone Light Architecture Sun Energy

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

Life Love Music Art Architecture

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.

Architecture World Wish Rise Create

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture Create Order Function

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Great Simple Architecture Past Clear

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Minoru Yamasaki

Architecture Buildings Go Build

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

Architecture Go Want Beyond Clothing

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Architecture Profound Arts Different

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Art Architecture Aesthetic Emotion

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Work Together Architecture City Me

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Dreams Architecture Building Movement

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