279 private quotes tagged architecture

“It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?” — Helmut Jahn

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“The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.” — Helmut Jahn

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“The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.” — Helmut Jahn

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“I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.” — Caroline Wozniacki

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“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.” — Minoru Yamasaki

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“Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.” — Minoru Yamasaki

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“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.” — Minoru Yamasaki

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“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.” — Tadao Ando

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“The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.” — Tadao Ando

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“Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.” — Tadao Ando

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“Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.” — Tadao Ando

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“All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.” — Tadao Ando

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“Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.” — Tadao Ando

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“Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.” — Tadao Ando

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“People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.” — Rem Koolhaas

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“I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.” — Richard Rogers

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“My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.” — Luis Barragan

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