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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.
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- Nov 07, 2020