Architecture Quote by Kevin McCloud Download Open image “Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.” — Kevin McCloud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Architecture Pretty Doing Much Pretty Sexiest Sexiest Sexiest Thing
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 thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in the university.… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives… — Kevin McCloud 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
