Architecture Quotes - page 19

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. (Hugo Chávez)
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all, I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today - ethics, and moral...[Capitalism is] an infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell. View quote
Hugo Chávez
Architecture is treated as crystallisation; sculpture, as the organic modelling of the material in its sensuous and spatial totality; painting, as the coloured surface and line; while in music, space, as such, passes into the point of time possessed of content within itself, until finally the external medium is in poetry depressed into complete insignificance. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. View quote
Larry Wall
Every software system needs to have a simple yet powerful organizational philosophy (think of it as the software equivalent of a sound bite that describes the system's architecture)... [A] step in [the] development process is to articulate this architectural framework, so that we might have a stable foundation upon which to evolve the system's function points. View quote
Grady Booch
Model Driven Architecture is a style of enterprise application development and integration, based on using automated tools to build system independent models and transform them into efficient implementations. View quote
Grady Booch
If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process. View quote
Barry Boehm
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture. View quote
John Betjeman
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth. View quote
Anne Fortier
The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. (Mark Frost)
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Architecture is not about form. View quote
Peter Zumthor
There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years. View quote
Renzo Piano
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. View quote
Renzo Piano
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. View quote
Renzo Piano
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. View quote
Renzo Piano
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing. View quote
Renzo Piano
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible. (Richard Meier)
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form. View quote
Richard Meier
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light. View quote
Richard Meier
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. View quote
Richard Meier
Architecture is always political. View quote
Richard Rogers