279 private quotes tagged architecture

“But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.” — Michael Tilson Thomas

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“I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.” — Barry Mann

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“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.” — Oscar Niemeyer

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“Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.” — Oscar Niemeyer

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“Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.” — Oscar Niemeyer

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“Architecture is invention.” — Oscar Niemeyer

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“The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.” — Mukesh Ambani

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“Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.” — Adolf Loos

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“Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.” — Thom Mayne

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“I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.” — Thom Mayne

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“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.” — Thom Mayne

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“You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.” — Thom Mayne

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“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.” — Nancy Banks Smith

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“I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.” — Gates McFadden

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“Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.” — Malcolm Wallop

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“That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.” — Jim Woodring

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“Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.” — John Howe

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“Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.” — Joseph Kosinski

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“I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.” — Joseph Kosinski

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“An important work of architecture will create polemics.” — Richard Meier

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“The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.” — Ian Hamilton Finlay

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“I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.” — Art Garfunkel

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“After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.” — Harry Seidler

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“After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.” — Harry Seidler

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“The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.” — Ralph Erskine

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