Architecture Quote by Peter Eisenman Download Open image “The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.” — Peter Eisenman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Compromise Made Needs
“It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less… — Abhijit V. Banerjee Copy Share Image
The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward.… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman 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