Architecture Quote by Spiro Kostof Download Open image “Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.” — Spiro Kostof ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Architecture Social Human activity Humans Material Theater Materials Social Social Act Theater
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group… — Robert L. Geddes Copy Share Image
Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what,… — Frank Lloyd Wright 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