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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Health
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Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
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I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
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My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
- Fashion
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In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
- People
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Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
- Dynamics
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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020