Architecture Quote by David Chipperfield Download Open image “The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.” — David Chipperfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Bad Between Good Good and bad Time
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 against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
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,… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. — Annabelle Selldorf 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
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 does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history,… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding,… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have… — David Chipperfield 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
