Architecture Quote by Richard Meier Download Open image “An important work of architecture will create polemics.” — Richard Meier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Important Important work Polemics
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them. — Glenn Murcutt 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
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by… — Brian Foote Copy Share Image
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. — Minoru Yamasaki 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
Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
“The stunted pines elude capture in a thousand sidetracked increments. The wind will never understand them. Like us it is forced to go on.” — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
For me [ Giovanni Lorenzo ] Bernini, [Francesco ] Borromini, and [Donato] Bramante have been as significant as Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier 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