279 private quotes tagged architecture

“Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.” — Maya Lin

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“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” — Audre Lorde

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“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.” — Havelock Ellis

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“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

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“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.” — Alvar Aalto

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“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.” — Arthur Erickson

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“Architecture theory is very interesting.” — David Byrne

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“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.” — Arthur Erickson

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“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.” — Arthur Erickson

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“Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.” — Richard Rogers

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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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“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.” — Louis Kahn

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“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?” — Jeremy Renner

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“I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.” — Roger Waters

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“I see music as fluid architecture.” — Joni Mitchell

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“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.” — Arthur Erickson

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“Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?” — Arthur Erickson

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“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.” — Arthur Erickson

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“The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.” — Arthur Erickson

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“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.” — Arthur Erickson

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“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.” — Arthur Erickson

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“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” — Ai Weiwei

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“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.” — Quincy Jones

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

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