Architecture Quotes - page 25

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. (Juan Goytisolo)
Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. View quote
Kevin McCloud
I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle. View quote
Kelly Wearstler
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. View quote
Leon Krier
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. View quote
Leon Krier
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. View quote
Leon Krier
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. View quote
Louis Kahn
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space. View quote
Louis Kahn
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. View quote
Louis Kahn
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. View quote
Louis Kahn
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. (Malcolm Wallop)
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think. View quote
Marco Brambilla
I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. View quote
Alexandre de Betak
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. View quote
Christian de Portzamparc
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. View quote
Christian de Portzamparc
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. View quote
Christian de Portzamparc
I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. View quote
Doug TenNapel
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. View quote
Danny Rimer
I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater. View quote
Dante Ferretti
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. View quote
James Wyatt
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. (Martin Filler)
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades. View quote
Martin Filler
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. View quote
Martin Filler
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial. View quote
Martin Filler
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s. View quote
Martin Filler