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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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- Eternity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture aims at Eternity.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.
- Strong
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
- Efficiently
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020