- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture Quotes
Buildings that shape how we think about places.
One voice here admits thinking about architecture constantly, even dreaming about it, while flatly calling the field unnecessarily difficult. See Design quotes for related thoughts on the creative process behind it.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens. I moved from London to Hertfordshire, so I could get a garden.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
A house is a machine for living in.
- Objects
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- Nov 07, 2020