Archeology Quote by Jaime Lerner Download Open image “The design of a city is like a strange archeology.” — Jaime Lerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Archeology City Design Design City Engineering Like Like Strange Strange Strange Archeology
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of their context.… — Wade Graham Copy Share Image
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out… — Olivier Theyskens 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
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 Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“How is it that people look at the same city and see such very different places? The answer lies in history, or, more accurately,… — Matthew Klingle Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, [...] came to teach [the ancient inhabitants of Mexico] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary to build… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have… — Kent V. Flannery Copy Share Image
Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to… — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're standin at… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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