Architecture Quote by Robin Boyd Download Open image “The suburb was the major element of Australian society.” — Robin Boyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Australian Community Elements Inspirational Love Majors Suburbs
Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere.… — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
What is really important for us in Sydney is to make sure every community is treated the same. — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride... — Pete Munro Copy Share Image
“Regional interests and loyalties are even stronger among Australians than among Americans - in that in social life they exist almost without challenge. Canberra… — Donald Horne 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
We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted in Australia,… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Sydney has such a cosmopolitan feel to it. The food is great and Australians are so friendly. — Denise Lewis 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. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
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
