Architecture Quotes - page 30

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. (Rem Koolhaas)
There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. View quote
Rem Koolhaas
The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. View quote
Rem Koolhaas
What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. View quote
Rem Koolhaas
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star. View quote
Rem Koolhaas
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles? View quote
Jeremy Renner
In making the four-channel video work Dachau, my experience as a weaver directly influenced the basic structuring of the work. The content itself was taped in 1974 at the former concentration camp Dachau. The symmetry of the architecture and the present ambience of the space were the focus of the recordings. The past was recorded only insofar as the sounds of the voices of the present commingled with the feeling absorbed in the wood and revealed in the structure of forms which has no amount of time can erase. View quote
Beryl Korot
Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror. View quote
Louis Sullivan
No complete architecture has yet appeared in the history of the world because men, in this form of art alone, have obstinately sought to express themselves solely in terms either of the head or of the heart. View quote
Louis Sullivan
All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass. View quote
Luis Barragán
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. (Christopher Nolan)
The design of a digital system starts with the specification of the architecture of the system and continues with its implementation and its subsequent realisation... the purpose of architecture is to provide a function. Once that function is established, the purpose of implementation is to give a proper cost-performance and the purpose of realisation is to build and maintain the appropriate logical organisation. View quote
Gerrit Blaauw
There always is an architecture, whether it is defined in advance - as with modern computers - or found out after the fact - as with many older computers. For architecture is determined by behavior, not by words. Therefore, the term architecture, which rightly implies the notion of the arch, or prime structure, should not be understood as the vague overall idea. Rather, the product of the computer architecture, the principle of operations manual, should contain all detail which the user can know, and sooner or later is bound to know. View quote
Gerrit Blaauw
In computer design three levels can be distinguished: architecture, implementation and realisation; for the first of them, the following working definition is given: The architecture of a system can be defined as the functional appearance of the system to the user, its phenomenology. View quote
Gerrit Blaauw
The architecture of a system can be defined as the functional appearance of the system to the user. View quote
Gerrit Blaauw
Will the world enter a new phase of isolation, nationalization, ideologization? As a paradoxical counterplay to the onset of globalization? That would require new architecture or author architecture to degenerate into a kind of "parallel architecture," which it already is to a certain extent today. View quote
Jacques Herzog
The world is changing dramatically and architecture, and especially cities, need to move with these changes. What can we do to help as architects? Architecture as a way of thinking - as the title of our first exhibition in 1989 suggested - is more relevant than ever. View quote
Jacques Herzog
A city's architecture is always a bit like a constructed, psychological version of its people. View quote
Jacques Herzog
In Switzerland, there's now this semi-urbanism; architecture that's neither good nor bad, neither urban nor rural, and yet well-connected to the public transport network; where there's always something green, but never lush or a lot; where there's always a bit of water in the form of a river, stream or a lake. As long as most people can live like that and it doesn't suddenly become too dense and packed in the districts, and in the trams and suburban trains, it's impossible to change it. View quote
Jacques Herzog
Architecture and psychology suddenly become very close. View quote
Jacques Herzog
...that's really the first thing to say about Speer's architecture. It was just awful. A genius without talent, he was essentially a theatrical personality, with enough gumption to be quiet about it. (Clive James)
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. View quote
John Irving
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. View quote
Henry Paulson
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. View quote
Sufjan Stevens