- 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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- Bankrupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.
- Post
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery, animals or great architecture.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020