Architecture Quote by Jonathan Meades Download Open image “I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.” — Jonathan Meades ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture,… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is… — John Updike 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
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it.… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always… — Jonathan Meades 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
