279 private quotes tagged architecture

“We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.” — Levon Helm

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“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.” — Robert Smithson

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“Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.” — Bruce Jackson

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“Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.” — Frank Gehry

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“In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.” — Alain Robert

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“Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.” — Anthony Holden

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“It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.” — Oscar Niemeyer

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“I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.” — Oscar Niemeyer

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“Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.” — Robert Palmer

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“Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.” — Marilyn Hacker

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“I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.” — Tim Gunn

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“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.” — Federico Garcia Lorca

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“But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.” — Thom Mayne

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“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” — Constantin Brancusi

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“And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“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.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.” — Michael Mandelbaum

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“The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.” — Joel Coen

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“Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.” — Bob Barr

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“We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.” — Tony Scott

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“Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.” — Rem Koolhaas

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“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.” — Rem Koolhaas

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“People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.” — Marc Newson

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