A Quotes
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“Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.”
“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
“Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.”
“Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.”
“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.”
Source: Frank Stella at 2000
“Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.”
“architecture cannot express specific emotions that are manifested in particular organs. Nor should it try to do so. Its object remains the great existential feelings, the emotions that posit the stable and constant condition of the body”
“Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.”
Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.”
“Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.”
“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
“Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.”
“Architecture excites our respect to the extent that it surpasses us.”
Source: The Architecture of Happiness
“Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement”
“Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.”
“Architecture has a history of adopting tools that have been developed for other reasons. It’s not a driving force of innovation. It rarely has been.”
Source: BIM Notebooks - 2017
“Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.”
“Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.”
“Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.”
Source: Peter Zumthor
“Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity.”
Source: The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...
“Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”
“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2
“Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.”
“Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.”
“Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.”
“Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.”
“Architecture in general is frozen music.”
“Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.”
“Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.”
“Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.”
“Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.”
“Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.”
“Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet”
“Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.”
“Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.”
“Architecture is a reflection of the human spirit.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.”
Source: Antoine Predock, architect
“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.”
Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt
“Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.”
“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.”
“Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.”
“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”
“Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.”
“Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.”
“Architecture is about public space held by buildings.”
“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.”
“Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”
Source: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
“Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.”