Architecture Quotes - page 8

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. (Paul Rand)
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. View quote
Alex Winter
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background. View quote
Antoine Predock
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. (Arthur Erickson)
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. View quote
Arthur Erickson
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. View quote
Arthur Erickson
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. View quote
Arthur Erickson
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. View quote
Arthur Erickson
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. View quote
Barry Mann
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. View quote
Ben van Berkel
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. View quote
Bernard Tschumi
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. (Charles Jencks)
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. View quote
Charles Jencks
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. View quote
David Chipperfield
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. View quote
Daniel Libeskind