Architecture Quote by Michael Graves

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything…

— Stephen Wolfram

Architecture is an expression of values.

— Norman Foster

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

— Jurgen Habermas

This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an…

— Herbert Marcuse

The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established,…

— Bertrand Russell

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

— Bertrand Russell

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea…

— Stephen Wolfram

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of…

— Thom Mayne

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

— Julie Mehretu

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

— Santiago Calatrava