- 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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- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is politics.
- Distributed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.
- Requirements
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
- Equity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
- Dialogue
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020