Architecture Quotes - page 20

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. (Richard Rogers)
What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines. (Santiago Calatrava)
Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
My architecture is very much place-related. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. View quote
Susan Vreeland
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. View quote
Tadao Ando
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind. View quote
Tadao Ando
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible. View quote
Tadao Ando
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. (Tadao Ando)
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings. View quote
Toyo Ito
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. View quote
Thom Mayne
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. View quote
Thom Mayne
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. View quote
Thom Mayne