Architecture Quote by Jimenez Lai Download Open image “Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.” — Jimenez Lai ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Career End of the day Ends Profession Rational The end of the day
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer 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
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's… — Norman Foster 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 a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
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
The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention to: the… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. — Jimenez Lai 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
