Architecture Quote by Grant Shapps Download Open image “Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.” — Grant Shapps ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Bad Good Good and bad
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
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
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano 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
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people… — Frank Gehry 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
I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is often said there is a great deal of talent in the Conservative Parliamentary Party. This is true, but too many of the… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Struggling to start a small business is all-encompassing. It is a 24-hour job that places strain on those involved. As well as worrying about… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
MPs are only elected thanks to the help of ordinary members - activists on the ground who traipse the streets, post leaflets and engage… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
No government can maintain the public's confidence if it is outwardly split. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
People like me - who set up a homelessness foundation, worked with all the homeless charities, authored probably six of seven homelessness papers -… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Look, ideally I'd like to have free money to give to everybody. The reality is in government you have to choose and make decisions. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS will do,… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Businesses create every penny of the wealth we need to pay for our nation's schools, our NHS and our pensions. They are our only… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force. — Grant Shapps 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