Architecture Quotes - Page 2

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak ... -Julia Morgan

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

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This quote reflects the architect's desire for their creations to endure as a lasting legacy, representing their values, vision, and contributions to society. It implies a belief in the lasting impact of architecture and its ability to communicate the architect's ethos.

The audiences are really great. I really love it over there. I love Europe, period. Oh my God, all the architecture and all the history and just to the way people think and live is so different.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I studied Russian history at school, and I absolutely loved St Petersburg. It was magnificent - the architecture is incredible and has quite a significant Dutch influence.

I have a huge love for architecture.

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This quote conveys the speaker's profound affection and passion for architecture. It suggests a deep emotional connection and personal attachment to the field, indicating a strong affinity for architectural aesthetics, design principles, and the overall built environment.

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

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

My first venture to Qatar was with WWE. It was an incredible tour and we stayed at a luxurious hotel. I ventured out by myself and wandered down to a shopping center and there was beautiful architecture everywhere.

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

I like going for walks in the western harbour, a newly-built area of Malmo where the old harbour used to be. It is surrounded by canals and waterways and the architecture is modern and innovative - the landmark Turning Torso skyscraper, designed by Santiago Calatrava, is the star of the show.

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

I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.

Less is more.

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This famous quote, associated with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, advocates for simplicity and minimalism in design. It implies that by reducing complexity and removing unnecessary elements, a design can achieve greater elegance and impact.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work o... -Oscar Niemeyer

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, an... -Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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This quote metaphorically compares prose writing to architecture, emphasizing structure and coherence over superficial ornamentation. It suggests that the Baroque style, known for its ornate decoration, is no longer in fashion or relevant in contemporary architecture.

I was always really geeky about design and buildin... -Aldis Hodge

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

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This quote reflects the speaker's early fascination and enthusiasm for design and buildings, particularly architecture, from their childhood. It implies a long-standing interest in architectural aesthetics and the built environment, suggesting an innate curiosity and engagement with architectural concepts and structures.

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.

Trying to describe something musical is like danci... -Robert Palmer

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, th... -Oscar Niemeyer

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

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