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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
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020