Architecture Quote by Owen Hatherley Download Open image ““It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]”” — Owen Hatherley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Criticism Manchester Modern
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“I stop in my tracks to look up, completely disrupting the flow of tourist traffic. It’s directly in front of me, in all its ancient glory. Probably one of the most immense structures I’ve ever seen. Skyscrapers don’t count--nothing modern counts. Nothing made in the last five hundred years counts against this monster, because this was built, like, two thousand… — Kristin Rae Copy Share
“I’ve been successful at Manchester United for many years and it’s not without its problems – every hour of every day you have to… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
“Lancre Castle was built on an outcrop of rock by an architect who had heard about Gormenghast but hadn’t got the budget.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Particularly in the past fifty years the world has gradually been finding out something that architects have always known—that is—that everything is architecture. Charles… — John Harwood Copy Share Image
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The Tower is not a usual spectacle; to enter the Tower, to scale it, to run around its courses, is, in a manner both… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d been aiming… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Living through the Blitz, edited by MO’s Tom Harrisson, makes clear just how much the ‘1945’ we now consume is a construct, a convenient… — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
“Lancastrian workers, the dumb and dignified beasts of burden that line the Road to Wigan Pier, thronged tours by Soviet leaders, workers, soldiers and… — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
“It is important to record that the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ poster was never mass-produced until 2008. It is a historical object of… — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.” — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
“If a social and democratic city is going to be built again, it will most probably be built by those who have no investment… — Owen Hatherley 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