History Quote by Richard Meier Download Open image “You can't escape the influence of architectural history.” — Richard Meier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Influence
Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves. — Hugh Casson Copy Share Image
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it, — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler 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
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
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