Architecture Quote by Georges Rodenbach

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin…

— Mario Botta

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

— Rem Koolhaas

Sculpture, for me, provides that environmental discipline where you actually move in and around it. And if you have a good collaboration with an…

— Keith Sonnier

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving…

— Amanda Hearst

Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the…

— Karl Friedrich Schinkel

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

— Fabio Novembre

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we…

— Neri Oxman

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

— Agnes Repplier

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

— Len Smith

We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have…

— Nick Saban