Architecture Quote by Annabelle Selldorf Download Open image “The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.” — Annabelle Selldorf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Eye More than meets the eye Secret
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — Frank Gehry 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
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple. — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see.… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question. — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid,… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body. — Annabelle Selldorf 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
