Architecture Quotes - Page 15

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

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

I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and architecture. You can't ignore what's around you, but at the same time, an artist who has a sophisticated form language knows how to pull in different elements, and readjust and redirect those. . . . So it becomes an engineering process, too.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.