Architecture Quote by Norman Foster Download Open image “Architecture is an expression of values.” — Norman Foster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Depression Expression Inspirational Values
Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel Copy Share Image
The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright 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
Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group… — Robert L. Geddes Copy Share Image
Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also,… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere. — Norman Foster 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
