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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think architecture has to be a gift.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
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In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020