Architecture Quotes - Page 9

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

I like the architecture of lingerie.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

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

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.