Architecture Quote by Jean Nouvel Download Open image “I think architecture has to be a gift.” — Jean Nouvel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Thinking
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of… — Samuel Mockbee 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
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
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity. — Kenzo Tange 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
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
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those,… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch. — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself! — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a… — Jean Nouvel 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
