Architecture Quotes - Page 19

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry Riley talking about how he thinks so much about cinema. I'd love to see more of a rupture between mediums and a flow between them.

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

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 theory is very interesting.

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography.

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North America. It's not quite Canada and it's not quite America, and it's definitely got this very Euro feel to it. It's a very, very interesting city.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

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.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.