Architecture Quote by Michael Graves Download Open image “The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.” — Michael Graves ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Communication Dialogue Ideas Long Too long Truth
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. — Annabelle Selldorf 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
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. — John Ruskin 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
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 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
I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that I don't… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“Out of my numerous visits I have made to Catfish Plantation, I never photographed an entity like this. It looks like an angel.” — Michael Graves 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
