Architecture Quote by Robin Boyd Download Open image “Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.” — Robin Boyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Australia Bureaucracy Facts Men Old man
As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to… — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is,… — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
Australia can no longer afford to go down the path of confrontation and fragmentation which has embittered and disfigured so many aspects of the… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure… — Julie Bishop Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. — Robin Boyd 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
