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“Architecture is an expression of values.”

“Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.”

People Way Art Design Architecture Doing You

Author:Renzo Piano

“Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.”

Art Architecture Feds

Author:Renzo Piano

“Architecture is art, nothing else.”

Art Architecture

Author:Philip Johnson

“Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Kind Mean Art Together Technology Too Much Art Is Incredibles Architecture Complexity Sociology Geography Anthropology Typography

Author:Renzo Piano

“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”

Hope Enjoy Architecture Tea Architect Bad Ass Badass Containers Architecture And Design Architecture Design Modern Architecture

Author:Yoshio Taniguchi

“Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.”

Art Space Design Architecture Interiors Interior Space

Author:Philip Johnson

“Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.”

Feels Space Situation Building Bounds Architecture Poetic Links Site Metaphysical Sense Of Place

Author:Steven Holl

“Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.”

Profession Architecture Faster

Author:Moshe Safdie

“Architecture is crystallized music.”

Architecture

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Architecture is definitely a political act.”

Political Architecture

Author:Peter Eisenman

“Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.”

Finished Architecture Prophecy Tombs

Author:Lewis Mumford

Source: Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography

“Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.”

Knows Men Humans Spirit Architecture Manifest Human Spirit

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.”

Ifs Enough Body Past Quality Bears Assuming Architecture Witness Sensitive Exposed Past Life

Author:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.”

Ifs Art Country Beautiful Young Inspired Architecture Teenager Beautiful Art

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]”

Dies Architecture Frozen

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.”

Persons Space Fashion Objects Architecture

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”

Architecture Bad Ass Sculpture Badass Architecture And Design

Author:Constantin Brancusi

“Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's behavior in that space. I don't know if we know how to change that, but our goal is to make spaces for people rather than people being subservient to spaces.”

People Hate Goal Design Behavior Architecture

Author:Vito Acconci

“Architecture is invention.”

Architecture Invention

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.”

World Art Certain Term Interesting Involved Logic Architecture Traditional Autonomy Most Interesting

Author:Thom Mayne

“Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”

World Today Form Records Architecture Yesterday Architect Truest Organic Architecture

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940

“Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.”

Whole Models Draws Architecture Ass Fantastic Architect Bad Ass Badass Architecture And Design Architecture Design Architecture And Art

Author:Maya Lin

“Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless”

Writing Looks Architecture Edits Effortless

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.”

Mind Made Hands Memories Records Doors Color Shapes Window Architecture Roof Slopes

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.”

Trying Past Imagination Imagine Building Future Architecture Measurement Past Present Future

Author:Richard Rogers

“Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.”

Discipline Profession Architecture

Author:Odile Decq

“Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.”

Ifs Want Firsts Moving Night Space Pleasure Architecture Visuals First Love Constructs Day And Night

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.”

Humans Important Matter Whole Life Is Human Beings Architecture Drawing Whole Life Boards What Matters

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.”

People Ifs Needs Looks Whole Used House Understanding Walks Common Building Affair Architecture Architect Common Ground Whole Family Walks Of Life

Author:John C. Portman, Jr.

“Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.”

Weak Profession Architecture Hearted Short Lived Faint Hearted

Author:Martin Filler

“Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.”

Discipline Profession Architecture

Author:Raimund Abraham

“Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.”

Ifs Believe Enough I Believe Can Do Money Beauty Impossible Building Computer Approach Tools Architecture Appropriate Inherent Premises Attainment

Author:Moshe Safdie

“Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings.”

Kind Ideas Individual Principles Design Building Findings Architecture Formulas Discovering Regularity

Author:Shigeru Ban

“Architecture is not about form”

Form Architecture

Author:Peter Zumthor

“Architecture is not about space but about time.”

Space Architecture Architect

Author:Vito Acconci

“Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.”

Whole Design Building Affair Architecture Setting Settings Ambience

Author:Michael Graves

“Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.”

Wonder Elements Bases Architecture Ass Soil Architect Concrete Steel Bad Ass Badass Architecture And Design Architecture Design

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.”

People Made Facts Together Individual Team Design Genius Determination Committed Myth Architecture Dumb Working Together

Author:Joshua Prince-Ramus

“Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.”

Mind Hands Creativity Solutions Discovery Architecture Creativeness

Author:Glenn Murcutt

“Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.”

Moments Next Fashion Architecture Magazines Fashion Magazines

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.”

Earth Architecture Locals Ties Rooted

Author:Alvar Aalto

“Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.”

Form Architecture

Author:Bernard Tschumi

Source: Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color

“Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.”

Thinking Men Want Long Reason Difficult Building Industry Long Time Blame Males Architecture No Reason Clients Blame Me

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Architecture is petrified music.”

Architecture

Author:Felix Schelling

“Architecture is politics.”

Internet Architecture

Author:Mitchell Kapor

“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.”

People Thinking Want Feels Wells Hands Space Pleasure Architecture Ass Feel Good Well Being Architect Shelter Bad Ass Badass Architecture And Design Architecture Design Architecture And Art

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.”

“Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.”

Giving Beautiful Architecture Decor

Author:Claudio Silvestrin

“Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.”

Men Made Eye Size Architecture Symbols Giants Heroic Towers Alphabet Stature

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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