Architecture Quote by Ken Yeang Download Open image “I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.” — Ken Yeang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Building Ecological Should Thinking
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power. — Claudio Silvestrin Copy Share Image
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
We should be building houses like we build cars - controlled environment, huge amount of research and development, high levels of quality control. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. — Helmut Jahn 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
I'm eternally optimistic about the future. I believe that if we are committed towards it and if we continue to educate people and get… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
We shouldn't just look at new buildings but at existing stock building because that's an even greater problem than the new buildings being built.… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as the human… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
In most ecological systems you have a composite, biotic components as well as abiotic components acting together to form a whole, whereas in a… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
I think green buildings are extremely important but it's only part of the equation. A lot of people think that if I put a… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the biggest source… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the process of… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste.… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems,… — Ken Yeang 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
