Quotes about architecture
architecture combat-boots captivated
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. Tim Gunn
architecture remember egyptian
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. Stephen Gardiner
architecture trump licensing
Architecture trumps licensing any time. Tim O'Reilly
architecture wonder speed
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. Tadao Ando
architecture warmth
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. Maya Lin
architecture sometimes good-and-bad
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. John Updike
architecture adaptation force
Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force. John Ruskin
architecture nations
Architecture is the work of nations
architecture function equity
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. Michael Graves
architecture mankind comfortable
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... Oscar Wilde
architecture made unnatural
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. Louis Kahn
architecture circles dimension disappears emerges flies fourth france higher inevitable logician loves rational sort utterly
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
architecture client combining diverse drive factors locations remote several unified
Several factors are combining to drive the need for a unified architecture for accessing applications from remote locations and by diverse client types.
architecture art basically breakfast brutally century early founded meets salon science
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.
architecture autonomy blue deliver fought good people profession represents resistance violently weak
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing. Thom Mayne
architecture corrected face hopeful insist management mistakes move overall program readily remain space strategy tough ultimately
It is appropriate to insist on an overall strategy for space architecture and to face tough decisions, ... Boeing management readily admits that mistakes were made on this program. But those mistakes are now corrected and I remain hopeful that a well-managed program will ultimately move forward. Jane Harman
architecture county designed facilities numerous
We have numerous investigations into (accessibility at) county facilities that were designed by Architecture Plus.
architecture flow love madly passionate school somebody thrill
When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating. Catherine Hardwicke
architecture bought buildings developers interiors nice opportunity
He bought two other buildings on Frankford Avenue, too. But it would be nice to have more developers here. There's a lot of opportunity here. We have old buildings where the architecture and the interiors are really interesting.
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Google's architecture can scale. Using commodity hardware, Google can deploy more capacity at a lower cost and more quickly than a competitor relying on a system built with brand-name hardware,
architecture built change ethos future leave retain
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. Richard Rogers
architecture
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. Sammy Cahn
architecture centered developing form rapidly
Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. Nate Lowman
architecture hope inventions playground
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
architecture depends inner time unfolding
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
architecture bad dangerous hundred impose people ugliness writer
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years. Renzo Piano
architecture data enable ingredient integrate itself key offering richer solution type various
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.
architecture defining form theory worked
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. Preston Sturges
architecture balancing designing wearing
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. Philip Treacy
architecture calling dispute folly happened laughing national pleasure sort trust
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. Ian Hamilton Finlay
architecture art business call given people product rises
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. Frank Gehry
architecture art compels controls convinces dominates hear inspire music oratory time
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
architecture art design inspired landscapes
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. Francisco Costa