Architecture Quotes - page 3

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. (Tadao Ando)
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. View quote
Toyo Ito
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. View quote
Toyo Ito
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. View quote
Thom Mayne
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value. View quote
Thom Mayne
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. View quote
Thom Mayne
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. View quote
Thom Mayne
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. View quote
Thomas Reid
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. View quote
James Henry Breasted
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. (Kenzo Tange)
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. View quote
Kenzo Tange
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. View quote
Kenzo Tange
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. View quote
Arthur Erickson
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. View quote
Goldwin Smith
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. View quote
Helmut Jahn
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. (Harry Seidler)
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. View quote
Harry Seidler
One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. View quote
Oksana Baiul
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. View quote
Parker Stevenson
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. View quote
Sydney Pollack