Architecture Quote by Peter Zumthor Download Open image “Architecture is not about form” — Peter Zumthor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Form Inspirational Love
It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context. — Vittorio Gregotti Copy Share Image
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry.… — James Polshek Copy Share Image
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated… — Peter Zumthor 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
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths,… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look… — Peter Zumthor 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
