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- 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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- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
- Nov 07, 2020
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
- Extending
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
- Curves
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020