279 private quotes tagged architecture

“First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.” — Gustav Stickley

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“Architecture aims at Eternity.” — Christopher Wren

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“Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.” — James Wyatt

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“Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.” — Richard Meier

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“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.” — Edwin Lutyens

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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.” — George Lamming

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“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.” — John Ruskin

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“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” — Frank Gehry

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“Less is more.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.” — Luis Barragan

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” — Philip Johnson

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“My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.” — Richard Rogers

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“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.” — Alvar Aalto

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“The higher the building the lower the morals.” — Noel Coward

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“A house is a machine for living in.” — Le Corbusier

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“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.” — Louis Kahn

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“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.” — Yoshio Taniguchi

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“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” — Le Corbusier

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“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.” — Tadao Ando

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“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.” — Arthur Erickson

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“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.” — Arthur Erickson

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“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.” — Maya Lin

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