Architecture Quote by Lebbeus Woods Download Open image “Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.” — Lebbeus Woods ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Decades Discourse Lacking Moments Past Present moment Time
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up. — George Lamming Copy Share Image
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it, — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.” — Beatriz Colomina Copy Share Image
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea… — Lebbeus Woods 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
