Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Zumthor

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Peter Zumthor

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Paul Keating

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.

Aldous Huxley

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Alexander Jackson Davis

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Alexander Jackson Davis

I am but an architectural composer.

Brian Baumgartner

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Cameron Mackintosh

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

Paulo Coelho

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

P. J. O'Rourke

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

Bjarke Ingels

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.

Bjarke Ingels

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Bjarke Ingels

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Bjarke Ingels

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Bjarke Ingels

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

We sent to San Francisco for an architect designer. It cost us a lot of money for that guy. But, out here it's worth it.

Alice Temperley

I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries. I love the dark, moody decor as well as the fantastic scented, candlelit pool in the basement.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Tadao Ando

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.

Vint Cerf

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

Alexander Smith

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

We basically opened the building to the public, and were visited by physicists and architects and musicians and sound healers,

XML by itself is not a solution -- it's a key ingredient to enable a richer type of solution, ... What you need is an architecture where you can take XML data and integrate it with various applications -- and that's what we're offering with BizTalk.

Ann Bancroft

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

Charles Jencks

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Wentworth Miller

I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.

Dave Gahan

I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.

Dave Gahan

If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.

You lose, that's what you do. They shot the ball extremely well from behind the arc obviously, and that was the difference in the ball game.