Architecture Quotes - page 10

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. (Martin Filler)
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. View quote
Max Walker
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. View quote
Maya Lin
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. View quote
Maya Lin
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. View quote
Maya Lin
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. View quote
Maya Lin
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. View quote
Maya Lin
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. View quote
Maya Lin
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. View quote
Maya Lin
I have no requirements for a style of architecture. View quote
Michael Graves
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. (Michael Graves)
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
Architecture is politics. View quote
Mitch Kapor
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. View quote
Nancy Banks Smith
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. View quote
Neil Denari
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. View quote
Nico Tortorella
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. View quote
Peter Eisenman
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' View quote
Peter Eisenman
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. View quote
Peter Eisenman
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. View quote
Parker Stevenson
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. (Robert Palmer)
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. View quote
Stanley B. Prusiner
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. View quote
Stephen Gardiner
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. View quote
Stephen Gardiner
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. View quote
Stephen Gardiner