- Mathematics
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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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- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020