Architecture Quotes - Page 16

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been.

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

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.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. So I got an art degree as a default position.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do other things while you're listening to music and of course, you can do other things while you're in the middle of architecture. The notion of multi-attention seems to me like it's the keynote to the beginning of the 21st century.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes sense because we've already established the photography focusing on architecture, even if it looks incorrect, there's something appealing about entering that.