Architecture Quotes - page 26

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. (Martin Filler)
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. View quote
Martin Filler
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. View quote
Martin Filler
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. View quote
Martin Filler
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. View quote
Martin Filler
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' View quote
Martin Filler
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper. View quote
Max Walker
I don't believe in morality in architecture. View quote
Michael Graves
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. View quote
Michael Graves
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design. View quote
Michael Hansmeyer
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. (Michael Mandelbaum)
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. View quote
Nate Berkus
I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced. View quote
Oren Peli
Architecture is definitely a political act. View quote
Peter Eisenman
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. View quote
Peter Eisenman
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. View quote
Peter Eisenman
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. View quote
Peter York
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. View quote
Peter York
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. View quote
Philip Treacy
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? View quote
Patricia Marx
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. (Rafael Vinoly)
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. View quote
Roman Coppola
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. View quote
Ron Eglash
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry. View quote
Ron Eglash
I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. View quote
Ross Lovegrove