Architecture Quotes - Page 18

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

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

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Architecture is crystallized music.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.