Architecture Quote by Jan Gehl Download Open image “Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.” — Jan Gehl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Humans Interaction Scales Successful
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 has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel Copy Share Image
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must… — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing.… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas,… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves, — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It… — Jan Gehl 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