Architecture Quote by I. M. Pei Download Open image “Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.” — I. M. Pei ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Life Life is Mirror Of Life Mirrors
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi 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
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very… — I. M. Pei Copy Share
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. But I thought, the one thing I must learn about for this project is the Islamic faith. So I read about Islam and Islamic architecture, and the more I studied the more… — I. M. Pei Copy Share
I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do… — I. M. Pei 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. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
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
