Architecture Quote by Alvar Aalto Download Open image “Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.” — Alvar Aalto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Civilization Culture
A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share
Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society,… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells.… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
