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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.
- Dome
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020