In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place." — Peter Block Copy Share Image
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
“sketching out, like an architect, the plan of salvation to those that pleased Him.” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
“Large-scale engineered systems are more than just a collection of technological artifacts: They are a reflection of the structure, management, procedures, and… — Nancy G. Leveson Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
“Let us summarize these three points more concisely: (a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair. (b)… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
“She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!” She sat rigidly, her teeth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Vivian’s first impression of Solidago was that she had travelled back in time, but not to a time where architecture had been… — Louise Blackwick Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.” — James C. Snyder Copy Share Image
I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.” — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context. — Vittorio Gregotti Copy Share Image
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
“...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
![“What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about…” quote by David Adjaye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0f/david-adjaye-31851_architecture_what-i-resist-is-techniques-i-find-techn_804486.png)
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